Node.js Resources

• Learn Node - Delightful Node.js packages and resources
• NodeSchool
• Awesome Node.js
• Node Service Template provides a "battery-included" starter template for building enterprise Node.js webservices.
• Practica
• Node.js Best Practices
• How to code in Node.js
• The Nine Node Pillars - 9 Principles for Doing Node.js Right in Enterprise Environments
• Node Security
• How I write backends
• Node.js Reference Architecture
• Shell scripting with Node.js
• Bun.js
• Advanced Node.js Patterns Repository

Auth

• Better Auth is an authentication framework. It provides a comprehensive set of features out of the box and includes a Plugin ecosystem.
• FusionAuth - Auth.Built for Devs, by Devs. Secure, powerful, and flexible auth that developers love.
• Permit makes it easy to add an authentication layer to any Node.js API. It can be used with any of the popular server frameworks.

Books

• Shell scripting with Node.js

• NodeSchool.ioL

• Awesome Node.js - A curated list of delightful Node.js packages and resources.

• Node.js Best Practices

  • Tao of Node - Design, Architecture & Best Practices

• NodeJS Official Docs

• Node Releases

• Node Green See Node.js version ECMAscript support.

• Practical Node

• http-server A simple static web server for development

• localtunnel - exposes your localhost to the world for easy testing and sharing.

CLI Tools

• Caporal - A full-featured framework for building command line applications (cli) with node.js.
• Commander.js - The complete solution for node.js command-line interfaces.
• Gluegun - A delightful toolkit for building Node-powered CLIs.
• Inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces.
• Oclif - The Open CLI Framework.
• Termo is a simple terminal emulator that can be used to create a terminal-like interface on your website.

Data Validation

• Ajv allows implementing complex data validation logic via declarative schemas for your JSON data, without writing code.
• Forg.js is a JavaScript lightweight object validator.
• is.js - Check types, regexps, presence, time and more...
• Joi - Schema description language and data validator for JavaScript.
• JSON Schema enables the confident and reliable use of the JSON data format.
• v8n aims to be the most fluent and simple validation library for use in any context.
• Valid.js - A library for data validation.
• Validator.js - This library validates and sanitizes strings only.
• Vest - Form validation that feels like writing tests.
• Vine.js
• Yup is a schema builder for runtime value parsing and validation.
• Zod

Dates & Times

• Date-fns provides the most comprehensive, yet simple and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js.
• Day.js is a minimalist JavaScript library that parses, validates, manipulates, and displays dates and times for modern browsers with a largely Moment.js-compatible API.
• Luxon - A powerful, modern, and friendly wrapper for JavaScript dates and times.
• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates and times in JavaScript.
• Pretty MS - Convert milliseconds to a human readable string: 1337000000 → 15d 11h 23m 20s.

Express Libs

• cookie-session
• express-rate-limit

Frameworks

• Have a look at the Node Frameworks Page
• Adonis - A TypeScript-first web framework for building web apps and API servers.
• DerbyJS is a full-stack framework for writing modern web applications.
• Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js
• Fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js.
• Feathers - A full-stack web-framework for creating APIs and real-time applications with TypeScript or JavaScript.
• Hapi - The Simple, Secure Framework Developers Trust
• Hexo - A fast, simple & powerful blog framework.
• Hono - Web application framework. Fast, lightweight, built on Web Standards. Support for any JavaScript runtime.
• Htmx - Gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML.
• Koa - Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express.
• Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, reliable and scalable server-side applications.
• Restify - A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale.
  • Restify Cheatsheet
• Twirp is similar to gRPC, but without the custom HTTP server and transport implementations: it runs on the standard library's extremely-well-tested-and-high-performance net/http Server. It can run on HTTP 1.1, not just http/2, and supports JSON serialization for easy debugging.
• Wasp - Rails-like framework for React, Node.js and Prisma.

Graphics

• GraphicsMagick - Image manipulation library in Node.js
• Jimp - An image processing library for Node written entirely in JavaScript, with zero native dependencies.
• Sharp - The typical use case for this high speed Node-API module is to convert large images in common formats to smaller, web-friendly JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF and AVIF images of varying dimensions.

Hosting

• Nodeshift - Node.js on Kubernetes and Openshift
• Render.com - Intuitive infrastructure to scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth.

HTTP

• Axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
• Ky - Ky targets modern browsers, Node.js, and Deno. It's just a tiny file with no dependencies.
• Undici - An HTTP/1.1 client, written from scratch for Node.js.

Logging

• Bragi is javascript logging library with colors, custom log levels, and server reporting functionality.
• Bunyan is a simple and fast JSON logging library for node.js services
• Consola - Elegant Console Logger for Node.js and Browser.
• Datadog - Modern monitoring & security. See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.
• Dumper.js - A better and pretty variable inspector for your Node.js applications.
• Errsole is an open-source logger for Node.js apps. It comes with a built-in log viewer to view, filter, and search your app logs.
• Graylog - Threat Detection & Incident Response Done Right.
• LogRocket identifies exactly where your customers are struggling the most.
• LogTape Simple logging library with zero dependencies for every JavaScript runtime.
• Loggly - See it all in one place. Dozens of log sources, no proprietary agents.
• Morgan - HTTP request logger middleware for node.js.
• Papertrail - Frustration-free log management.
• Pino - Very low overhead Node.js logger.
• Raygun - Auto-prompt your chosen LLM with crucial error context from your stack trace, environment, and affected code to get fast and accurate solutions.
• Roarr - JSON logger for Node.js and browser.
• Rollbar - Discover, predict, and resolve errors in real-time.
• Signale - Hackable and configurable to the core, signale can be used for logging purposes, status reporting...
• TSLog - Beautiful logging experience for Node.js with TypeScript support.
• Winston is designed to be a simple and universal logging library with support for multiple transports.

Low-Code and No-Code

• JointJS - Build advanced visual and no-code/low-code applications quickly and confidently with a proven library.
• Node-RED - Low-code programming for event-driven applications.

Markdown

• Marked - A low-level markdown compiler for parsing markdown without caching or blocking for long periods of time.
• Micromark - The smallest CommonMark compliant markdown parser. With positional info and concrete tokens.
• Remarkable - Markdown parser done right. Fast and easy to extend.
• Turndown - Convert HTML into Markdown with JavaScript.

Misc libraries

• Accounting.js is a tiny JavaScript library by Open Exchange Rates, providing simple and advanced number, money and currency formatting.
• Auth.js - Authentication for the Web. Free and open source.
• AutoNumeric.js is a standalone Javascript library that provides live as-you-type formatting for international numbers and currencies.
• bcrypt.js - Optimized bcrypt in JavaScript with zero dependencies.
• Bignumber.js - A JavaScript library for arbitrary-precision decimal and non-decimal arithmetic.
• Bumblebee - JavaScript Voice Application Framework.
• Cron is a robust tool for running jobs (functions or commands) on schedules defined using the cron syntax.
• Croner - Cron jobs in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• csurf
• DotEnv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env.
• Fast-CSV - CSV Parser and Formatter.
• fdir - The Fastest Directory Crawler & Globber for NodeJS
• Highlight.js - The Internet's favorite JavaScript syntax highlighter supporting Node.js and the web.
• Hyperid - Uber-fast unique id generation, for Node.js and the browser.
• Hyperlink - Detect invalid and inefficient links on your webpages. Works with local files or websites, on the command line and as a node library.
• jq
• Marky - JavaScript timer based on performance.mark() and performance.measure().
• Math.js - An extensive math library for JavaScript and Node.js.
• Micro Diff is a tiny (currently <1kb), fast, zero dependency object and array comparison library.
• Microlight.js is a tiny open-source library which improves readability of code snippets by highlighting, for any programming language.
• node-convict Schema-based configuration management
• NodeCSV - This project provides CSV generation, parsing, transformation and serialization for Node.js.
• Nodegit - Native Node bindings to Git.
• NodeGui - Build performant, native and cross-platform desktop applications with Node.js and CSS like styling.
• PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser.
• PDFMake - PDF document generation library for server-side and client-side in pure JavaScript.
• QuaggaJS - A barcode-scanner entirely written in JavaScript supporting real- time localization and decoding of various types of barcodes.
• Rsmq - Redis Simple Message Queue. A lightweight message queue for Node.js that requires no dedicated queue server.- Sarus - A JavaScript library for WebSockets.
• Simple Git - A lightweight interface for running git commands in any node.js application.
• Socket.io - Bidirectional and low-latency communication for every platform.
• Sockette is a tiny (367 bytes) wrapper around WebSocket that will automatically reconnect if the connection is lost!
• SSE Channel - SSE-implementation which can be used to any node.js http request/response stream.
• Strman - A Javascript string manipulation library.
• Superdiff - This library compares two arrays or objects and returns a full diff of their differences.
• tasuku - The minimal task runner for Node.js
• Uuid - Generate RFC-compliant UUIDs in JavaScript.

ORMs and Query Builders

• Bookshelf.js is a JavaScript ORM for Node.js, built on the Knex SQL query builder.
• Drizzle - Drizzle ORM is a headless TypeScript ORM with a head.
• How Query Engines Work
• Knex.js is a SQL query builder for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MSSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite3, Better-SQLite3, Oracle, and Amazon Redshift.
• Jedlik is an extensible DynamoDB ODM for Node, written in TypeScript.
• Leoric is an object-relational mapping library for Node.js.
• Objection.js - An SQL-friendly ORM for Node.js.
• Orange ORM The ultimate Object Relational Mapper for Node.js, Bun and Deno.
• Prisma provides the best experience for your team to work and interact with databases.
• Prismaliser
• Pure ORM - A pure ORM for writing native SQL queries yielding pure business objects.
• Sequelize - is a modern TypeScript and Node.js ORM for Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and SQL Server.
• Waterline - An adapter-based ORM for Node.js with support for mysql, mongo, postgres, mssql (SQL Server), and more.
• Wetland - A Node.js ORM, mapping-based. Works with MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite and more.

Scheduling

• Agenda - A light-weight job scheduling library for Node.js.
• Bree - is the best job scheduler for Node.js and JavaScript with cron, dates, ms, later, and human-friendly support.
• Bull - The fastest, most reliable, Redis-based queue for Node.

Search

• Flexsearch - Web's fastest and most memory-flexible full-text search library with zero dependencies.
• Fuse.js - Powerful, lightweight fuzzy-search library, with zero dependencies.
• Lunr - Designed to be small, yet full featured, Lunr enables you to provide a great search experience without the need for external, server-side, search services.
• uFuzzy - is a fuzzy search library designed to match a relatively short search phrase (needle) against a large list of short-to-medium phrases.

Templating

• EJS - Embedded JavaScript templating.
• Eta - A faster, more lightweight, and more configurable EJS alternative. Works in Node, Deno and the browser.
• Handlebars - Minimal templating on steroids.
• Jade - The default templating language for Express.
• Liquid.js - A simple, expressive and safe template engine.
• Marko - is HTML re-imagined as a language for building dynamic and reactive user interfaces.
• Nunjucks - You've been looking for a more sophisticated templating engine for JavaScript.
• Pug - Another templating language.
• SquirrellyJS - Powerful, lightweight, pluggable JS template engine.
• Tempura - A light, crispy, and delicious template engine 🍤
• Vash is a template engine that offers a swift flow between code and content using Razor Syntax.

Testing

• Node.js Testing Best Practices

Tools

• Appwrite.io - Is a self-hosted backend-as-a-service platform that provides developers with all the core APIs required to build any application.
• Electron - Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
• ESBuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web.
• GRaderJS - Turn your full-stack NodeJS application into a downloadable cross-platform binary. Also works for SPAs, or regular web-sites.
• Mailtrap - A test mail server solution that allows testing email notifications without sending them to the real users.
• nvm - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
• NVM Desktop is a desktop application that helps you manage multiple Node.js versions through a visual interface.
• nvm-windows - A node.js version management utility for Windows. Ironically written in Go.
• Parcel combines a great out-of-the-box development experience with a scalable architecture that can take your project from just getting started to massive production application.
• PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online 24/7.
• Tinybench - Benchmark your code easily with Tinybench, a simple, tiny and light-weight.