Node.js

Notes
​I use package.json scripts as entrypoints to custom JS scripts. Make is a build tool, not a meta-shellscript format.​
​yarn upgrade-interactive --latest to bulk choose which packages to upgrade to latest version.​
Links
​Introduction to Node.js​
​Node.Dev - Latest Node.js content, news and updates in one place.
​Original presentation by Ryan Dahl on node.js​
​Node.js Best Practices​
​Supercharge your debugging experience for Node.js​
​ndb - Improved debugging experience for Node.js, enabled by Chrome DevTools.
​What is the Node way?​
​Redbird - Modern reverse proxy for node.
​ncc - Simple CLI for compiling a Node.js module into a single file, together with all its dependencies, gcc-style.
​TestCafe - Node.js tool to automate end-to-end web testing.
​ndb - Improved debugging experience for Node.js, enabled by Chrome DevTools.
​Fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. (Web) (What Is Fastify?)
​fastify-plugin - Plugin helper for Fastify.
​fastify-cli - Run a Fastify application with one command.
​Fastify Typescript Starter​
​fastify-reply-from - Fastify plugin to forward the current HTTP request to another server. HTTP2 to HTTP is supported too.
​Nodal - API Services Made Easy With Node.js
​Node.js Fundamentals: Web Server Without Dependencies (2018)​
​node-sqlite3 - Asynchronous, non-blocking SQLite3 bindings for Node.js.
​Pragmatic Modularity (2016)​
​Stability first (2016)​
​David - Node.js module that tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
​httpie - Node.js HTTP client as easy as pie.
​Bull - Premium Queue package for handling distributed jobs and messages in NodeJS.
​depcheck - Check your npm module for unused dependencies.
​Marble.js - Functional reactive HTTP framework built on top of Node.js platform, TypeScript and RxJS.
​Nest - Progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications, heavily inspired by Angular. (Web) (Awesome) (Nest framework TypeScript starter)
​Nest CLI - CLI tool for Nest applications.
​Asynchronous Programming Library - Library of Asynchronous Programming Abstractions.
​Curated list of awesome developer tools for writing cross-platform Node.js code​
​Simple Git - Light weight interface for running git commands in any node.js application.
​patch-package - Fix broken node modules instantly.
​Debugging in 2017 with Node.js​
​np - Better npm publish.
​Using npm's ls command for Fun and Insight (2019)​
​TSBB - Zero-config CLI for TypeScript node.js application development.
​NodeSource - Low-impact monitoring for mission-critical Node.js applications.
​qnm - Simple cli utility for querying the node_modules directory.
​isolated-vm - Secure & isolated JS environments for nodejs.
​fnm - Fast and simple Node.js version manager, built in native ReasonML.
​pacote - Node.js library for downloading npm-compatible packages.
​node-module-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating a Node.js module.
​stringio - Convert strings to Node.js streams and vice versa.
​npkill - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.
​TaskBotJS - Best JavaScript/TypeScript job processing framework on the planet.
​Verdaccio - Lightweight private npm proxy registry.
​Node Serialport - Access serial ports with JavaScript. Linux, OSX and Windows.
​RunKit - Sandboxed JavaScript environment as notebooks.
​Velcro - Suite of packages designed to bridge the runtime gap between browser development and the node package ecosystem.
​Autarky - Liberating disk space from node_modules.
​pre-bundled - Tool that pre bundles and re publishes npm dependencies.
​oclif - Framework for building CLIs in Node.js
​Postgres.js - Fastest full featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js
​Node.js Interview Questions​
​SOLID: Introduction to software architecture & design principles with Node.js & TypeScript​
​graffiti - Web-like GUI toolkit for node.js with minimal overhead. Lightweight, GPU-rendered alternative to electron.
​ls-engines - Determine if your dependency graph's stated "engines" criteria is met.
​relative-deps - Installs local dependencies for optimal developer experience.
​Pug - Robust, elegant, feature rich template engine for NodeJS.
​Nock - HTTP server mocking and expectations library for Node.js.
​Node.js CLI Apps Best Practices​
​vm2 - Advanced vm/sandbox for Node.js.
​mock-fs - Allows Node's built-in fs module to be backed temporarily by an in-memory, mock file system.
​http-proxy-middleware - One-liner node.js http-proxy middleware for connect, express and browser-sync.
​ThreadBox - Recursive Worker Threads in NodeJS.
​Helpful libraries and resources for building Node.js CLIs​
​Node.js Backend Architecture Typescript Project​
​react-blessed - React custom renderer for the blessed library.
​v8-compile-cache - Require hook for automatic V8 compile cache persistence.
​nve - Run any command on specific Node.js versions.
​node-cpp-skel - Skeleton for bindings to C++ libraries for Node.js using node-addon-api.
​Domain-Driven Design w/ TypeScript & Node.js (Vinyl-Trading enterprise app built with Node.js + TypeScript using Domain-Driven Design)
​Official Docker Image for Node.js​
​Learn ES Modules in Node with Myles Borins (2020)​
​Node File Trace - Determine exactly which files (including node_modules) are necessary for the application runtime.
​Awesome npm scripts​
​Emma - Terminal assistant to find and install node packages.
​v8-perf - Notes and resources related to V8 and thus Node.js performance.
​VSCode Language Server - Node​
​tslog - Beautiful logging experience for Node.js with TypeScript support.
​Objection.js - SQL-friendly ORM for Node.js.
​AWS Box - Featherweight PaaS on top of Amazon EC2 for deploying node apps.
​Using Streams Efficiently in NodeJS (2020)​
​Native ESM in Node.js w/ require() fallbacks and support for all front end compilers (2020)​
​fetch-h2 - Fetch API implementation for Node.js using the built-in http, https and http2 packages without any compatibility layer.
​piscina - Fast, efficient Node.js Worker Thread Pool implementation.
​Tinypool - Fork of piscina. Fast, efficient Node.js Worker Thread Pool implementation.
​Objection.js - SQL-friendly ORM for Node.js.
​Build JavaScript applications with Node.js​
​Node.js Notes​
​How to stream file downloads in Node.js with Got (2020)​
​orogene - Next-generation platform and package manager for Node.js-compatible and frontend JavaScript projects.
​undici - HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js.
​cheerio - Fast, flexible & lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
​Skia Canvas - Skia + Rust = Serverside Canvas for Node. (HN)
​Intro to Node That You May Have Missed (2018)​
​node-postgres - Non-blocking PostgreSQL client for Node.js. Pure JavaScript and optional native libpq bindings.
​Docker best practices with Node (2020)​
​Performance Best Practices Using Express in Production​
​Node.js' Tooling Group - Advancing Node.js as a framework for writing great tools.
​5 TILs about Node.js Fundamentals from the Node.js Design Patterns Book (2020)​
​Promise Pool - Map-like, concurrent promise processing.
​Node CLI Automation - Build Node.js Command-line Automation Dev-tools.
​Top 11 Node.js ORMs, Query Builders & Database Libraries in 2020​
​npm-check-updates - Upgrades your package.json dependencies to the latest versions, ignoring specified versions.
​yarn-audit-fix - Apply npm audit fix logic to yarn.lock.
​@hapi/lab - Node test utility.
​live-plugin-manager - Node.js module that allows you to install, uninstall and load any node package at runtime from npm registry.
​Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf (2020)​
​pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager. (Docs)
​node-request-interceptor - Low-level HTTP/HTTPS/XHR request interception library for Node.
​napi-rs - Minimal library for building compiled NodeJS add-ons in Rust. (Docs) (Web Code) (Tweet)
​Template project for writing node package with napi-rs​
​esno - TypeScript/ESNext node runtime powered by esbuild.
​TypeScript Tools for Node.js​
​Learning Node.js internals​
​Boa - Call python functions from Node.
​Cliffy - Framework For Interactive CLIs.
​localPorridge - Rip-off of localStorage for Node.
​Why does package-lock.json exist, and how does it work? (2020)​
​NodeConf Remote​
​node-csv - Full featured CSV parser with simple api and tested against large datasets.
​totalist - Tiny utility to recursively list all (total) files in a directory.
​Hyperbee - Append-only Btree running on a Hypercore.
​tinyhttp - Tiny web framework as a replacement of Express.
​Awesome Node Native ESM modules​
​npm-diff - Diff two versions of a node module.
​Esbuilt optimizer - Convert your dependencies to ESM bundles using esbuild.
​Why Node isn't exiting?​
​fast-csv - Library for parsing and formatting CSVs or any other delimited value file in node.
​ipt - Interactive Pipe To: The Node.js cli interactive workflow.
​node-gyp - Cross-platform command-line tool written in Node.js for compiling native addon modules for Node.js.
​lockfile-lint - Lint an npm or yarn lockfile to analyze and detect security issues.
​systeminformation - System Information Library for Node.JS.
​fastify-micro - Opinionated Node.js microservices framework built on Fastify.
​wsrun - Command runner for Yarn workspaces. Dependency aware.
​Bree - Best job scheduler for Node.js and JavaScript with cron, dates, ms, later, and human-friendly support.
​kevin-middleware - Express middleware that makes developing javascript in a monorepo easier.
​nestjs-pgpromise - Module for Utilizing Pg-promise with NestJS.
​byline - Line-by-line Stream reader for node.js.
​PM2 - Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer. (Web)
​keytar - Native Node module to get, add, replace, and delete passwords in system's keychain.
​npm-run-all - CLI tool to run multiple npm-scripts in parallel or sequential.
​mock-require - Simple, intuitive mocking of Node.js modules.
​NPM Trends - Compare NPM package downloads. (Code)
​gh-release - Create a github release for a node package.
​Our Journey to a High-Performance Node.js Library (2020)​
​Corepack - Zero-runtime-dependency package acting as bridge between Node projects and their package managers.
​lazynpm - Simple terminal UI for npm commands, written in Go.
​Retes - Typed, Declarative, Data-Driven Routing for Node.js.
​node-glob - Match files using the patterns the shell uses.
​Yarn Build - Build and bundle your local packages like Bazel and Buck but for Yarn v2. (Web) (Introduction)
​yarn-deduplicate - Deduplication tool for yarn.lock files.
​The Node Experiment - Exploring Async Basics with Rust. Aims to take a look at the why and how of concurrent programming. (Code)
​nbin - Fast and robust node.js binary compiler.
​Similar NPM Packages - Similar packages suggestions for the NPM ecosystem.
​Roarr - JSON logger for Node.js and browser.
​npm-upgrade - Interactive CLI utility to easily update outdated NPM dependencies.
​Curveball - Framework for building web services in Node.js. It fullfills a similar role to Express and it's heavily inspired by Koa.
​a12n-server - Ready-to-go OAuth2 server for Node.js.
​pure-http - Simple web framework for Node.js with zero dependencies.
​Distributed Systems with Node.js: Building Enterprise-Ready Backend Services (2020)​
​esbuild-node-tsc - Build your Typescript Node.js projects using blazing fast esbuild.
​esbuild-runner - Super-fast on-the-fly transpilation of modern JS, TypeScript and JSX using esbuild.
​vercel/pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable.
​Node Package Maintenance Team - Discussion of helping with maintenance of key packages in the ecosystem.
​Minimal Node.js Docker Images built on Alpine Linux​
​got - Human-friendly and powerful HTTP request library for Node.js.
​NPM RFCs​
​Farrow - Functional-style web framework for node.js written by TypeScript.
​Celery.node - Celery task queue client/worker for nodejs.
​Pipe Streams in Node in the Right Way (2020)​
​shargs (shell args) - Library for building command-line argument parsers.
​NodeGui - Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with Node.js and CSS like styling. Powered by Qt. (Web)
​Profiling Node.js - Collection of articles and tools to efficiently profile Node.js.
​Zeronode - Minimal building block for NodeJS microservices.
​Amplication - Instantly Generate Node.js Apps with GraphQL and REST API. (Web) (HN)
​canarist - Like npm link, but for workspaces / monorepos.
​Concurrently - Run multiple commands concurrently. Like npm run watch-js & npm run watch-less but better.
​node-bindgen - Easy way to write native Node.js module using idiomatic Rust.
​tasksfile - Minimalistic task runner for node.js.
​Node.js race conditions (2021)​
​fs-extra - Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs().
​Gluegun - Delightful toolkit for building TypeScript-powered command-line apps.
​node-pty - Fork pseudoterminals in Node.JS.
​LRT - Scheduler for long-running tasks inside browsers and Node.JS.
​ReactXpress - React renderer to build Node.js server.
​Node.js 14 is over 20x faster than Python3.8 for fib(n) (HN)
​Using ES Modules (ESM) in Node.js: A Practical Guide (2021) (HN)
​Envalid - Environment variable validation for Node.js.
​Express Typescript Boilerplate - Delightful way to building a RESTful API with NodeJs & TypeScript.
​Bytenode - Minimalist bytecode compiler for Node.js.
​rools - Small rule engine for Node.
​I finally escaped Node (and you can too) (2021) (Lobsters)
​LoopBack - Highly extensible Node.js and TypeScript framework for building APIs and microservices. (Code)
​Sending tuples from Node to Rust and back (2021)​
​HugSql - Node.js library for embracing SQL.
​esmon - Like nodemon but using esbuild.
​MikroORM - TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. (Code)
​Haf - Fully typed, cross-platform, persistent config solution for your NodeJS projects with a great developer experience.
​nanoexpress - Professional backend framework for Node.js.
​unimported - CLI utility that scans node/JavaScript projects to report dangling files and unused dependencies.
​boxednode - Ship a JS file with Node.js in a box.
​caxa - Package Node.js applications into executable binaries.
​Dependency Managers Don’t Manage Your Dependencies (2021)​
​Specialist - Library that helps you write tiny, fast, bundled and beautiful CLI apps that can automatically check for updates.
​Steno - Specialized fast async file writer.
​WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser (2021) (HN)
​envfile - Parse and write environment files with Node.js.
​listr2 - Create beautiful CLI interfaces via easy and logical to implement task lists that feel alive and interactive.
​node-rs - Rust Node.js bindings.
​node-dev - Zero-conf Node.js reloading.
​How to update all the Node dependencies to their latest version​
​nact - Node.js + actors. Redux but for the server. (Web)
​Yalc - Better workflow than npm | yarn link for package authors.
​Awesome NodeJS Security​
​Volt - Fastest Node.js Package Manager. (Code)
​workerpool - Offload tasks to a pool of workers on node.js and in the browser.
​esbuild-node-externals - Esbuild plugin to easily exclude node modules during builds.
​Bema - Delightful benchmarking for Node.js.
​Hammer - Build Tool for Browser and Node Applications.
​Commander.js - Node.js command-line interfaces made easy.
​AdonisJS - Fully featured web framework for Node.js. (Code)
​flydrive - Framework-agnostic package which provides a powerful wrapper to manage file Storage in Node.js.
​Japa - Embedable test runner for Node.js.
​Lucid - Official SQL ORM for AdonisJS.
​tinyhttp/jwt - JWT middleware for HTTP servers.
​TypeScript and native ESM on Node.js (2021)​
​NPM audit: Broken by Design (2021) (HN) (Tweet) (Tweet)
​Yarn 3.0: Performances, ESBuild, Better Patches (2021) (HN)
​Nodashka - Babashka-like tool for Node.js.
​Non-blocking I/O and how Node uses it, in friendly terms (2021)​
​Hello Yarn 2, Goodbye node_modules (2021) (HN)
​PureORM - Node.js SQL toolkit for writing native SQL queries yielding pure business objects.
​stream-json - Micro-library of node.js stream components with minimal dependencies for creating custom data processors oriented on processing huge JSON files.
​Edge - Node.js templating engine with fresh air.
​Poolifier - Fast and small Node.js thread pool implementation.
​tasuku - Minimal task runner for Node.js.
​pathe - Normalized paths for Node.js.
​Node Mono Library Template - Provides a GitHub mono repository template for a Anolilab Node libraries, using GitHub actions.
​Auto NPX - Auto resolving local Node.js binaries in VS Code terminal.
​Ask HN: Why is Node.js hated so much? (2021)​
​parcel/watcher - Native C++ Node module for querying and subscribing to filesystem events.
​FormData - Spec-compliant FormData implementation for Node.js.
​Comedy - Node.js actor framework.
​fs-memoize - Simple, zero-dependency NodeJs filesystem memoizer.
​stream-http - Streaming node http in the browser.
​Moleculer - Progressive microservices framework for Node.js. (Web) (Template)
​skr canvas - Google Skia binding to Node.js via Node-API, 0 System dependencies.
​Clipanion - Type-safe CLI library with no runtime dependencies.
​HyperExpress - High performance Node.js webserver with a simple-to-use API powered by uWebsockets.js under the hood.
​CORS Anywhere - NodeJS proxy which adds CORS headers to the proxied request.
​tsno - node with typescript support, importing from URL, etc.
​Vite as Node.js runtime​
​node-config - Node.js Application Configuration.
​Supercharge Your Node.js with Rust (2021) (HN)
​cli-ux - CLI IO utilities.
​Better SSE - Dead simple, dependency-less, spec-compliant server-side events implementation for Node, written in TypeScript.
​cache-interop - Interoperable cache adapters for node and browsers.
​How to distribute pre-built node binaries (2021)​
​Designing Error Messages and a Logging Strategy in Node.js (2021)​
​await-to-js - Async await wrapper for easy error handling without try-catch.
​formidable - Node.js module for parsing form data, especially file uploads.
​thread-stream - Streaming way to send data to a Node.js Worker Thread.
​next-10 - Discussion on strategic directions for next 10 years of Node.js.
​p4ssw0rd - Hash passwords with SHA-256 + bcrypt in Node.js.
​A Guide to Load Testing Node.js APIs with Artillery (2021)​
​find-my-way - Crazy fast HTTP router.
​fastest-validator - Fastest JS validator library for NodeJS | Browser | Deno.
​fast-gateway - Super fast, framework agnostic Node.js API Gateway for the masses. (Article)
​Easily build NodeJS projects inside a docker container (Lobsters)
​Agenda - Light-weight job scheduling library for Node.js.
​synchronous-worker - Run Node.js APIs synchronously.
​Base - Foundation for creating modular, unit testable and highly pluggable, server-side node.js applications.
​node-safe - Make using Node.js safe again with Deno-like permissions.
​shrun - Test NodeJS CLI commands in isolated docker containers.
​Bottleneck - Lightweight and zero-dependency Task Scheduler and Rate Limiter for Node.js and the browser.
​Follow Redirects - Node.js module that automatically follows HTTP(S) redirects.
​ultrafetch - node-fetch backed with an RFC-7234 compliant filesystem cache.
​gpkg - Global Node binary manager written in Rust.
​How to deploy a NodeJS application using Fly.io (2021)​
​dats - Minimalistic zero-dependencies UDP/TCP statsd client for Node.js.
​WebAPI - Use Web APIs for Node.
​type-flag - CLI argument parser with first-class type support.
​next-chunk - Asynchronously returns the next chunk in a Node.js readable stream.
​kv-orm/core - Node.js ORM for key-value datastores.
​0x - Profile and generate an interactive flamegraph for a Node process with a single command.
​jiti - Runtime Typescript and ESM support for Node.js.
​mlly - Missing ECMAScript module utils for Node.js.
​siroc - Zero-config but extensible framework for developing Node applications and libraries.
​Awilix - Extremely powerful Inversion of Control (IoC) container for Node.JS.
​Level - Node.js modules to build your very own database. (GitHub)
​subleveldown - Split a levelup database into sublevels with their own keyspace, encoding and events.
​tree-sitter-highlight - Syntax highlighter for Node powered by Tree Sitter. Written in Rust.
​Node.js Integration Tests Best Practices​
​Testcontainers Node - NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers.
​node-cli-starter - Minimal starter kit for building Node CLI applications with TypeScript.
​Node.js Addon Examples​
​cleye - Intuitive CLI development tool for Node.js.
​Youch - Pretty error reporting for Node.js.
​rust-nodejs - Embedding Node.js in Rust.
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