anaetrezve/a-to-z-list-of-useful-node.js-modules

Collection of most awesome node modules that will extend the capability of your node.js application.

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• Contributions are welcome.

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Packages for development

List of packages needed for development.

Frameworks

API Framework

• Actionhero - Multi-transport Node.js API server with integrated cluster capabilities and delayed tasks.
• Restify - A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale.
• FeathersJS - An open source REST and realtime API layer for modern applications.
• Loopback - Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.

Web Framework

• Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• Sails.js - Sails is the most popular MVC framework for Node.js.
• Hapi - A rich framework for building applications and services.
• Koa - Next generation web framework for Node.js

Microservice Framework

• Micro - Asynchronous HTTP microservices.
• Micro Panda - Node.js toolkit to help build microservices.
• Micro-Whalla - A simple, fast framework for writing microservices in Node.js communicate using RPC / IPC.
• Moleculer - Fast & powerful microservices framework for NodeJS.
• Seneca - A microservices toolkit for Node.js
• Serverless - Build and maintain web, mobile and IoT applications running on AWS Lambda and API Gateway (formerly known as JAWS).
• StdLib - Standard library for microservices.

Database

MongoDB & Helpers

• Mongoose - Mongoose is a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment.
• Mongoose Paginate v2 - A customizable cursor based pagination plugin for Mongoose.

MySQL & Helpers

• MySQL - A node.js driver for mysql. It is written in JavaScript, does not require compiling.
• Sequelize - Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.

Development

Authentication

• PassportJS - Passport is authentication middleware for Node.js and Express . A comprehensive set of strategies support authentication using a username and password, Facebook, Twitter, and more.

EMail

• Nodemailer - Send e-mails with Node.JS – easy as cake!
• Express-Mailer - Send Emails from your application and response object.

HTTP REST Client

• Axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Job Scheduler & Queueing

• Agenda - A light-weight job scheduling library for Node.js.

Testing

• Mocha - Simple, flexible, fun JavaScript test framework for Node.js & The Browser

Code Quality

Linting

• ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript and JSX
• JSHint - A Static Code Analysis Tool for Javascript.

Packages for Management & Operations

List of packages needed for management and operations.

Loggers/Logging

• Winston - A logger for just about everything.

Monitoring

• PM2 - It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and facilitate common Devops tasks.
• Forever - A simple CLI tool for ensuring that a given script runs continuously (i.e. forever).
• nodemon - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
• Trace - A visualised stack trace platform designed for microservices.

Code Quality Analysis

• Plato - JavaScript source code visualization, static analysis, and complexity tool.