Official

• Repository

Packages

Authentication

• Grant - OAuth providers for Express, Koa, Hapi, Fastify, AWS Lambda, Azure, Google Cloud, Vercel, and many more.

Authorization

• node-casbin - Authorization library that supports access control models like ACL, RBAC and ABAC.

Automation

• nut.js - Cross-platform native GUI automation / testing framework with image matching capabilities which integrates with Jest.

Command-line apps

• carbon-now-cli - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
• npkill - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Command-line utilities

• shelljs - Portable Unix shell commands.
• Cliffy - Framework for interactive CLIs.

Content management systems

• ApostropheCMS - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.

Database

• database-js - Wrapper for multiple databases with a JDBC-like connection.
• pg-mem - In-memory PostgreSQL instance for your tests.

Debugging / Profiling

• debug - Tiny debugging utility.
• llnode - Post-mortem analysis tool which allows you to inspect objects and get insights from a crashed Node.js process.

Email

• email-templates - Create, preview, and send custom email templates.

Forum

• nodeBB - Forum platform for the modern web.

HTTP

• http-fake-backend - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
• purest - REST client.

Logging

• consola - Console logger.

Mad science

• Brain.js - Machine-learning framework.

Miscellaneous

• dotenv - Load environment variables from .env file.
• nodegit - Native bindings to Git.
• patch-package - Make and preserve fixes to npm dependencies.

Network

• DHCP - DHCP client and server.

Node.js management

• nave - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
• nodenv - Version manager that is similar to Ruby's rbenv. It supports auto version switching.

Parsing

• nearley - Simple, fast, powerful parsing for JavaScript.
• xml2js - XML to JavaScript object converter.

Process management

• PM2 - Advanced Process Manager.
• nodemon - Monitor for changes in your app and automatically restart the server.

Real-time

• Primus - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.

Static site generators

• DocPad - Static site generator with dynamic abilities and huge plugin ecosystem.

Streams

• readable-stream - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.

Testing

• AVA - Futuristic test runner.
• Mocha - Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
• Nock - HTTP mocking and expectations.
• WebdriverIO - Automated testing based on the WebDriver protocol.
• nve - Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.
• testcontainers-node - Provides lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.

Web frameworks

• Next.js - Minimalistic framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript web apps.
• seneca - Toolkit for writing microservices.
• Nest - Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.

Related lists

Miscellaneous

• awesome-npm - Resources and tips for using npm.

Resources

Miscellaneous

• modern-node - Toolkit for creating node modules with Jest, Prettier, ESLint, and Standard.