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> Useful resources for creating apps and working with [Koa](http://koajs.com)



- [Links](#links)

- [Examples & Boilerplates](#examples--boilerplates)

- [Middleware](#middleware)

- [Others](#others)

- [Videos](#videos)



## Status



[![Deadlink Test](https://travis-ci.org/ellerbrock/awesome-koa.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/ellerbrock/awesome-koa)



**Info:** Green Build Status means there should be no Deadlinks in this List.


You can find the Testfiles on [travis-deadlink-scanner](https://github.com/ellerbrock/travis-deadlink-scanner).



## Links



- [Koa](https://github.com/koajs/koa) - Expressive middleware for node.js using generators

- [co](https://github.com/tj/co) - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness for nodejs



## Examples & Boilerplates



- [koa-rest-api-boilerplate](https://github.com/posquit0/koa-rest-api-boilerplate) - Boilerplate for Node.js Koa RESTful API application with Docker, Swagger, Jest, Coveralls and CircleCI

- [api-boilerplate](https://github.com/koajs/api-boilerplate) - API application boilerplate

- [kick-off-koa](https://github.com/koajs/kick-off-koa) - An intro to koa via a set of self-guided workshops

- [workshop](https://github.com/koajs/workshop) - Koa Training Workshop

- [examples](https://github.com/koajs/examples) - Example Koa apps

- [babel-es6-es7-npm-skeleton](https://github.com/ellerbrock/babel-es6-es7-npm-skeleton) - Babel ES6 / ES7 - Testing, Benchmark, Auto Reload, Linting

- [K2](https://github.com/hongymagic/k2) - Koa2, Babel ES6/7, GraphQL, passport-local based authentication, PostgreSQL, Jest for Unit and Integration testing and more

- [koa-firebase](https://github.com/antonybudianto/koa-firebase) - Koa with Firebase middleware integration starter

- [koalerplate](https://github.com/dbalas/koalerplate) - A simple Koa 2 boilerplate for API's using ES6.

- [koa-hasura](https://hasura.io/hub/project/hasura/hello-nodejs-koa) - Koa app starter kit with Hasura deployment

- [koa2-api-boilerplate](https://github.com/valera-shulghin/koa2-api-boilerplate) - Koa2, Knex, es6-error, Gulp, ApiDoc, ESLint, koa-validate, JWT.

- [koa-user-api-boilerplate](https://github.com/maotora/koa-userapi) - User API boilerplate using Koa2, Full ES6 & 7 support, Passport & JWT with tests.

- [koa-blog-api-boilerplate](https://github.com/maotora/koa-blogapi) - Blog API extended from [koa-user-api-boilerplate](https://github.com/maotora/koa-userapi) authentication layer with ES6 & 7 support.



## Tutorials



- [Building a RESTful API with Koa and Postgres](http://mherman.org/blog/2017/08/23/building-a-restful-api-with-koa-and-postgres)

- [User Authentication with Passport and Koa](http://mherman.org/blog/2018/01/02/user-authentication-with-passport-and-koa)



**Info:** Lots of the Examples and Boilerplattes are outdated.


Also some of the features not work straight out of the Box with the new Version.


I'm working on a Boilerplatte with all the cutting edge stuff and will publish it later on my [GitHub Account](https://github.com/ellerbrock).



## Middleware



- [accesslog](https://github.com/koajs/accesslog) - Middleware for common log format access logs

- [api-boilerplate](https://github.com/koajs/api-boilerplate) - API application boilerplate

- [atomic-session](https://github.com/koajs/atomic-session) - Atomic sessions for Koa

- [badgeboard](https://github.com/koajs/badgeboard)

- [basic-auth](https://github.com/koajs/basic-auth) - blanket basic auth middleware

- [body-parsers](https://github.com/koajs/body-parsers) - collection of koa body parsers

- [bodyparser](https://github.com/koajs/bodyparser) - a body parser for koa

- [bundle](https://github.com/koajs/bundle) - Generic asset pipeline with caching, etags, minification, gzipping and sourcemaps.

- [bunyan-logger](https://github.com/koajs/bunyan-logger) - Koa middleware for bunyan request logging

- [cash](https://github.com/koajs/cash) - HTTP response caching for Koa

- [charset](https://github.com/koajs/charset) - use iconv-lite to encode the body and set charset to content-type

- [cluster](https://github.com/koajs/cluster) - Koa clustering and error handling utility

- [compose](https://github.com/koajs/compose) - Middleware composition utility

- [compress](https://github.com/koajs/compress) - Compress middleware for koa

- [conditional-get](https://github.com/koajs/conditional-get) - Conditional GET middleware for koa

- [convert](https://github.com/koajs/convert) - Convert koa generator-based middleware to promise-based middleware

- [cors](https://github.com/koajs/cors) - Cross-Origin Resource Sharing(CORS) for koa

- [cross-cookies](https://github.com/koajs/cross-cookies) - Easily set cookies across subdomains

- [csrf](https://github.com/koajs/csrf) - CSRF tokens for koa

- [ctx-basic-auth](https://github.com/koajs/ctx-basic-auth) - Augments Koa with ctx.basicAuth

- [ctx-cache-control](https://github.com/koajs/ctx-cache-control) - Augment Koa with ctx.cacheControl(maxAge)

- [ctx-paginate](https://github.com/koajs/ctx-paginate) - Augments Koa with ctx.paginate

- [ejs](https://github.com/koajs/ejs) - a koa view render middleware, support all feature of ejs

- [error](https://github.com/koajs/error) - Error response middleware (text, json, html)

- [etag](https://github.com/koajs/etag) - ETag support for Koa responses

- [examples](https://github.com/koajs/examples) - Example Koa apps

- [favicon](https://github.com/koajs/favicon) - Koa middleware for serving a favicon

- [file-server](https://github.com/koajs/file-server) - file serving middleware for koa

- [generic-session](https://github.com/koajs/generic-session) - koa session store with memory, redis or others.

- [html-minifier](https://github.com/koajs/html-minifier) - minify HTML responses like some crazy guy

- [is-json](https://github.com/koajs/is-json) - check if a koa body should be interpreted as JSON

- [joi-router](https://github.com/koajs/joi-router) - Configurable, input and output validated routing for koa

- [json](https://github.com/koajs/json) - pretty-printed JSON response middleware

- [json-error](https://github.com/koajs/json-error) - Error handler for pure-JSON apps

- [json-filter](https://github.com/koajs/json-filter) - Middleware allowing the client to filter the response to only what they need, reducing the amount of traffic over the wire.

- [jwt](https://github.com/koajs/jwt) - Koa middleware for validating JSON Web Tokens

- [kick-off-koa](https://github.com/koajs/kick-off-koa) - An intro to koa via a set of self-guided workshops

- [koa](https://github.com/koajs/koa) - Expressive middleware for node.js using generators

- [koa-body-clean](https://github.com/rferro/koa-body-clean) - Koa middleware for auto cleanup files created to disk by multipart middlewares

- [koa-fresh](https://github.com/koajs/koa-fresh) - koa-fresh: HTTP response freshness testing middleware base on koa and node-fresh

- [koa-github](https://github.com/koajs/koa-github) - simple github auth middleware for koa

- [koa-lusca](https://github.com/koajs/koa-lusca) - koa version of lusca. Application security for koa.

- [koa-markdown](https://github.com/koajs/koa-markdown) - Auto convert markdown to html for koa. Inspired by connect-markdown

- [koa-range](https://github.com/koajs/koa-range) - range request implementation for koa, see 

- [koa-redis](https://github.com/koajs/koa-redis) - koa session with redis

- [koa-response-handler](https://github.com/potatogopher/koa-response-handler) - lightweight response handler for koa

- [koa-roles](https://github.com/koajs/koa-roles) - koa version of Connect-Roles

- [koa-rt](https://github.com/koajs/koa-rt) - koa rt with microtime

- [koa-custom-response](https://github.com/DhyanaChina/koa-custom-response) - standard RESTful API for koa

- [koa-typescript-guide](https://github.com/WittBulter/koa2-typescript-guide) the best practice of building Koa2 with TypeScript

- [koa-twig](https://github.com/jean-smaug/koa-twig) - use twig as template engine

- [koa-safe-jsonp](https://github.com/koajs/koa-safe-jsonp) - Safe jsonp plusins for koa.

- [koa.io](https://github.com/koajs/koa.io) - Realtime web framework combine koa and socket.io.

- [koa-ts-controllers](https://github.com/iyobo/koa-ts-controllers) - Typescript/decorator based Rest controller/router for Koa2+.

- [koala](https://github.com/koajs/koala) - [SEEKING MAINTAINER] An HTTP/2 and ES6 Module-ready Koa Suite

- [locales](https://github.com/koajs/locales) - koa locales, i18n solution for koa

- [logger](https://github.com/koajs/logger) - Development style logging middleware

- [maxrequests](https://github.com/koajs/maxrequests) - Limit max requests on each http keepalive connection.

- [middleware-hook](https://github.com/koajs/middleware-hook) - low-level hooks for your middleware

- [mock](https://github.com/koajs/mock) - Simple web page mock middleware

- [mount](https://github.com/koajs/mount) - Mount other Koa applications or middleware to a given pathname

- [onerror](https://github.com/koajs/onerror) - an error handler for koa, hack ctx.onerror

- [override-method](https://github.com/koajs/override-method) - method override utility for koa

- [parameter](https://github.com/koajs/parameter) - parameter validate middleware for koa, powered by parameter

- [path-match](https://github.com/koajs/path-match) - koa route middleware

- [qs](https://github.com/koajs/qs) - qs for koa, and use querystring more safely.

- [querystring-strict](https://github.com/koajs/querystring-strict) - THIS REPOSITORY IS NOW DEPRECATED

- [ratelimit](https://github.com/koajs/ratelimit) - Rate limiter middleware

- [react-view](https://github.com/koajs/react-view) - A Koa view engine which renders React components on server

- [redis-session-sets](https://github.com/koajs/redis-session-sets) - Koa Redis sessions with field-referencing cross sets

- [resourcer](https://github.com/koajs/resourcer) - A simple resource directory mounter for koa.

- [resourcer-docs](https://github.com/koajs/resourcer-docs) - Simple app that generates documentation for routes mounted using koa-resourcer.

- [response-time](https://github.com/koajs/response-time) - X-Response-Time middleware

- [rewrite](https://github.com/koajs/rewrite) - URL rewriting middleware

- [route](https://github.com/koajs/route) - Simple route middleware

- [s3-cache](https://github.com/koajs/s3-cache) - Koa middleware to cache and serve from S3

- [send](https://github.com/koajs/send) - Transfer static files

- [sendfile](https://github.com/koajs/sendfile) - basic file-sending utility for koa

- [session](https://github.com/koajs/session) - Simple cookie-based session middleware

- [snapshot](https://github.com/koajs/snapshot) - take snapshot when request, cache by request path.

- [stateless-csrf](https://github.com/koajs/stateless-csrf) - CSRF without sessions.

- [static](https://github.com/koajs/static) - Static file server middleware

- [static-cache](https://github.com/koajs/static-cache) - Static cache for koa

- [statsd](https://github.com/koajs/statsd) - Statsd middleware

- [timer](https://github.com/koajs/timer) - time your middleware

- [todo](https://github.com/koajs/todo) - a todo example write with koa and react

- [trace](https://github.com/koajs/trace) - generic tracing for koa

- [trace-influxdb](https://github.com/koajs/trace-influxdb) - InfluxDB tracing for koa-trace

- [trie-router](https://github.com/koajs/trie-router) - Trie-routing for Koa

- [userauth](https://github.com/koajs/userauth) - koa user auth middleware

- [workshop](https://github.com/koajs/workshop) - Koa Training Workshop

- [koa-protect](https://github.com/may215/koa-protect) - Security module for koa applications

- [koache](https://github.com/jean-smaug/koache) - Koa cache based on node-cache

- [koa-json-rpc](https://github.com/koalex/koa-json-rpc) - JSON-RPC 2.0 middleware which implements the [https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification](https://www.jsonrpc.org/specification)



## Generators



- [Generators](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Generator) - Mozilla Developer Network (MDN)



## Videos



- [KnowThen](http://knowthen.com/category/node-js/) - Videos about Koa and Generators

- [Generators in JavaScript](https://youtu.be/ategZqxHkz4) - What, Why and How



## Other Web Development Lists



- [Atom for Web Developer](https://github.com/ellerbrock/atom-for-webdeveloper) - Useful Packages and Configuration for a better Workflow

- [Node.js for Web Developers](https://github.com/ellerbrock/nodejs-for-webdeveloper) - Full Stack Javascript Development with Node.js

- [Chrome Extensions for Web Developer](https://github.com/ellerbrock/chrome-extensions-for-webdeveloper) - A list with useful Chrome Extensions

- [Publishing NPM Packages for Developers](https://github.com/ellerbrock/publishing-npm-packages) - Introduction how to write and publish npm Modules.

- [Awesome Typescript](https://github.com/ellerbrock/awesome-typescript) - A collection of awesome TypeScript resources.

- [Docker Tutorial](https://github.com/ellerbrock/docker-tutorial) - Getting Started with Docker.

- [Fish Shell Setup OS X](https://github.com/ellerbrock/fish-shell-setup-osx) - Terminal Setup for OS X with Fish Shell, Fisherman, Powerline Fonts and iTerm2.



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### Development by



Developer / Author: [Maik Ellerbrock](https://github.com/ellerbrock/)


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