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Authentication

• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive 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.

Blogging

• Ghost - Simple, powerful publishing platform.
• Hexo - Fast, simple and powerful blogging framework.

Build tools

• pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable.

Command-line apps

• np - Better npm publish.
• trash - Safer alternative to rm.
• speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
• is-online - Check if the internet connection is up.
• XO - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
• bcat - Pipe command output to web browsers.
• fkill - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
• browser-run - Easily run code in a browser environment.
• wallpaper - Change the desktop wallpaper.
• trymodule - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
• gtop - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.
• carbon-now-cli - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
• cash-cli - Convert between 170 currencies.
• npkill - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Command-line utilities

• meow - CLI app helper.
• terminal-link - Create clickable links in the terminal.
• terminal-image - Display images in the terminal.
• Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.
• cli-table3 - Pretty unicode tables.
• cli-columns - Columnated unicode and ansi-safe text lists.
• cfonts - Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
• shelljs - Portable Unix shell commands.
• gradient-string - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
• oclif - CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.
• Cliffy - Framework for interactive CLIs.
• zx - Write shell scripts JavaScript.

Compression

• Archiver - Streaming interface for archive generation, supporting ZIP and TAR.
• decompress - Decompression module with support for tar, tar.gz and zip files out of the box.

Content management systems

• KeystoneJS - CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.
• ApostropheCMS - Content management system with an emphasis on intuitive front end content editing and administration built on Express and MongoDB.
• Strapi - Content Management Framework (headless-CMS) to build powerful APIs.
• AdminBro - Auto-generated admin panel with CRUD for all your resources.

Control flow

• p-map - Map over promises concurrently.
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Database

• Redis - Redis client.
• LevelUP - LevelDB.
• MySQL - MySQL client.
• couchdb-nano - CouchDB client.
• Aerospike - Aerospike client.
• Couchbase - Couchbase client.
• MongoDB - MongoDB driver.
• Sequelize - Multi-dialect ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, and more.
• Bookshelf - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 in the style of Backbone.js.
• Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling.
• OpenRecord - ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite3 and RESTful datastores. Similar to ActiveRecord.
• pg-promise - PostgreSQL framework for native SQL using promises.
• slonik - PostgreSQL client with strict types, detailed logging and assertions.
• MikroORM - TypeScript ORM based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.
• Prisma - Modern database access (ORM alternative). Auto-generated and type-safe query builder in TypeScript. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL & SQLite.
• Lowdb - Small JavaScript database powered by Lodash.
• Mongo Seeding - Populate MongoDB databases with JavaScript and JSON files.
• @databases - Query PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 with plain SQL without risking SQL injection.
• pg-mem - In-memory PostgreSQL instance for your tests.

Date

• date-fns - Modern date utility.

Debugging / Profiling

• locus - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
• leakage - Write memory leak tests.
• llnode - Post-mortem analysis tool which allows you to inspect objects and get insights from a crashed Node.js process.
• swagger-stats - Trace API calls and monitor API performance, health, and usage metrics.
• NiM - Manages DevTools debugging workflow.
• dats - Minimalistic and zero-dependencies StatsD client.

Email

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

Filesystem

• globby - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
• chokidar - Filesystem watcher which stabilizes events from fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well as using native fsevents on macOS.
• proper-lockfile - Inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility.
• istextorbinary - Check if a file is text or binary.
• fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs module.

Forum

• nodeBB - Forum platform for the modern web.

Hardware

• serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
• i2c-bus - I2C serial bus access.
• onoff - GPIO access and interrupt detection.
• spi-device - SPI serial bus access.
• pigpio - Fast GPIO, PWM, servo control, state change notification, and interrupt handling on the Raspberry Pi.

HTTP

• got - Nicer interface to the built-in http module.
• undici - High performance HTTP client written from scratch with zero dependencies.
• ky-universal - Universal HTTP client based on Fetch.
• axios - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
• http-fake-backend - Build a fake backend by providing the content of JSON files or JavaScript objects through configurable routes.
• cacheable-request - Wrap native HTTP requests with RFC compliant cache support.
• gotql - GraphQL request library built on got.
• global-agent - Global HTTP/HTTPS proxy agent that is configurable using environment variables.
• smoke - File-based HTTP mock server with recording abilities.
• purest - REST client.

Image

• sharp - The fastest module for resizing JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images.
• ImageScript - Image processing in JavaScript, utilizing WebAssembly for performance.

Job queues

• bull - Persistent job and message queue.
• agenda - MongoDB-backed job scheduling.
• node-resque - Redis-backed job queue.
• rsmq - Redis-backed message queue.
• sqs-consumer - Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based apps without the boilerplate.
• bullmq - Persistent job and message queue.

Logging

• pino - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.

Mad science

• webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
• BitcoinJS - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
• NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
• YodaOS - AI operating system.
• Brain.js - Machine-learning framework.
• xlsx - Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.
• isomorphic-git - Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.

Minifiers

• imagemin - Image minifier.

Miscellaneous

• execa - Better child_process.
• file-type - Detect the file type of a Buffer.
• ow - Function argument validation for humans.
• dotenv - Load environment variables from .env file.
• nodegit - Native bindings to Git.
• jsdom - JavaScript implementation of HTML and the DOM.
• env-dot-prop - Get, set, or delete nested properties of process.env using a dot path.
• emittery - Simple and modern async event emitter.
• basic-ftp
• genepi - Automatically generate a native Node.js addon from C++ code.
• patch-package - Make and preserve fixes to npm dependencies.
• wild-wild-path - Object property paths with wildcards and regexes.

Natural language processing

• nlp.js - Building bots, with entity extraction, sentiment analysis, automatic language identify, and more.

Network

• getmac - Get the computer MAC address.
• netcat - Netcat port in pure JS.

Node.js management

• nave - Virtual Environments for Node.js.
• nodeenv - Node.js virtual environment compatible to Python's virtualenv.
• nodenv - Version manager that is similar to Ruby's rbenv. It supports auto version switching.
• fnm - Cross-platform Node.js version manager built in Rust.

Parsing

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

Process management

• PM2 - Advanced Process Manager.
• node-windows - Run scripts as a native Windows service and log to the Event viewer.
• Phusion Passenger - Friendly process manager that integrates directly into Nginx.

Real-time

• Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.
• SocketCluster - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
• Primus - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
• rpc-websockets - JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets.
• Aedes - Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.

Security

• upash - Unified API for all password hashing algorithms.
• crypto-hash - Async non-blocking hashing.

Streams

• into-stream - Convert a buffer/string/array/object into a stream.
• multistream - Combine multiple streams into a single stream.
• readable-stream - Mirror of Streams2 and Streams3 implementations in core.

Templating

• marko - HTML-based templating engine that compiles templates to CommonJS modules and supports streaming, async rendering and custom tags.

Testing

• AVA - Futuristic test runner.
• Mocha - Feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
• loadtest - Run load tests for your web application, with an API for automation.
• Nightwatch - Automated UI testing framework based on Selenium WebDriver.
• CodeceptJS - End-to-end testing.
• nve - Run any command on multiple versions of Node.js locally.

Text

• i18next - Internationalization framework.

Web frameworks

• Fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework.
• Hapi - Framework for building applications and services.
• Express - Web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
• Feathers - Microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.
• LoopBack - Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
• Meteor - An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteor)
• ThinkJS - Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.
• ActionHero - Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.
• AdonisJs - A true MVC framework for Node.js built on solid foundations of Dependency Injection and IoC container.
• Moleculer - Fast & powerful microservices framework.
• Nest - Angular-inspired framework for building efficient and scalable server-side apps.
• Tinyhttp - Modern and fast Express-like web framework.
• Marble.js - Functional reactive framework for building server-side apps, based on TypeScript and RxJS.
• Lad - Framework made by a former Express TC and Koa member that bundles web, API, job, and proxy servers.
• Ts.ED - Intituive TypeScript framework for building server-side apps on top of Express.js or Koa.js.

Weird

• cat-names - Get popular cat names.

Related lists

Miscellaneous

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

Resources

Miscellaneous

• node-module-boilerplate - Boilerplate to kickstart creating a node module.

Tutorials

• Node.js Best Practices - Summary and curation of the top-ranked content on Node.js best practices, available in multiple languages.
• Portable Node.js guide - Practical guide on how to write portable/cross-platform Node.js code.