maximization/nodejs-toolbox-catalog

Catalog of categories and libraries for Node.js Toolbox

Node.js Toolbox Catalog

This repository houses the categories and libraries used by Node.js Toolbox.

Want to add a category or missing a library? Contributions are welcome! Feel free to add a library in the appropriate category and create a pull request. If you're not sure which category a library belongs to, you can open an issue instead.

You'll find the categories in the ./src/categories folder. Each category is a json file with a packages array containing all libraries belonging to that specific category.

nodejs-toolbox-catalog's Issues

Tech Debt or Code Quality Category?

Hi there,

I know this might be controversial, but I recently went looking for "tech debt" packages and I couldn't find any well-maintained packages out there.

Here are a few that could be relevant:

• ESLint - has rules that can identify usage of deprecated or obsolete API calls for a specific version of the Node runtime
• npm-check - checks for outdated, incorrect/missing, and unused dependencies. Categorizes updates by SemVer difference into Patch, Minor, Major updates.
• depngn - Scan package dependencies that include an engines field to determine compatibility with a specific version of Node runtime
• ES6-Plato is a tool for generating static code analysis reports for ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) and beyond. It uses the Plato library to generate code complexity visualizations and reports based on the AST (Abstract Syntax Tree) generated by the Esprima parser.
• code-complexity. This tool supports several different complexity metrics, and also reports on the churn (total number of commits) on a file to evaluate hot spots.

Is there any interest in adding such a category?

Please let me know.

Thanks!

Add faker.js

Faker.js is very useful for testing. Should we add it under Test Frameworks or have a separate category?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@faker-js/faker

Add web scraping category

Add web scraping category.

New section: Mono-Repository Tooling

You could add a new section Mono-Repository Tooling and list tools to manage large-scale mono-repositories. Examples are lerna or turbo-repo.

How is score value calculated?

Hi, mine is more a question than an actual issue, I'm curious how is the score value calculated in Node.js Toolbox ?

thanks

add validator.js under a new category

validator.js is quite popular. It might worth adding to the toolbox. Under a new category maybe like "Validators, sanitizers".

https://www.npmjs.com/package/validator

Build Systems

Should JavaScript/Typescript build systems such as Nx(https://nx.dev/),Lerna(https://lerna.js.org/),Turbo(https://turbo.build/) also be added to the categories since they do help manage NodeJs monorepo projects?

PDF category?

Would you mind to add PDF category with libraries for generating and editing PDF files?

Missing native alternatives

I imagine a developer looking for some of the categories, like Test Frameworks, and using the information there to make a decision, with all the libraries listed there. But what is missing is the native alternatives, in the case of Test Frameworks, the native alternative is test runner module is stable since v20.0.0.

If there was a way to inform the developer that there is a native alternative, it would be great.

A challenge I see is that there is no way to measure the popularity of the native alternative. Maybe just a reminder that there is a native alternative would be enough.

Another category that will fit this are:

• Configuration Management, where the native alternative is comming with native .env support.
• Date & Time, if Temporal is accepted, it will be the native alternative.

New category: Image processors

Maybe adding a cat for image processing, sharp , jimp even qr code should fit I guess.

Configuration section

It would be nice to have section here all packages related to config gathered together like dotenv, convict, nconf, etc

Request to add `Benchmarking` libs as a category

Like Tinybench etc.

Rename Web Authentication to Authentication?

It's great that you have an authorization section, as that's so often overlooked, but an authentication section would be very welcome. Things like Passport, Auth.js, and so on.

Add front-end framework category

What about front-end framework category ?

Monthly or weekly downloads

I think monthly or weekly downloads are far more important than total downloads. Refer to moment and dayjs for example.

Add Authentication/Authorization category

How about Authentication/Authorization?

Add Frontend, Bundler section

Thanks for creating great project!
This is so helpful as a React dev like me though, I wonder is this project for backend specific stuff?