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Official

Packages

Mad science

  • webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.
  • peerflix - Streaming torrent client.
  • ipfs - Distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
  • stackgl - Open software ecosystem for WebGL, built on top of browserify and npm.
  • peerwiki - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
  • peercast - Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
  • BitcoinJS - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
  • Bitcore - Pure and powerful Bitcoin library.
  • PDFKit - PDF generation library.
  • turf - Modular geospatial processing and analysis engine.
  • webcat - p2p pipe across the web using WebRTC that uses your GitHub private/public key for authentication.
  • NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
  • YodaOS - AI operating system.
  • Brain.js - Machine-learning framework.
  • Pipcook - Front-end algorithm framework to create a machine learning pipeline.
  • Cytoscape.js - Graph theory (a.k.a. network) modeling and analysis.
  • js-git - JavaScript implementation of Git.
  • xlsx - Pure JS Excel spreadsheet reader and writer.
  • isomorphic-git - Pure JavaScript implementation of Git.

Command-line apps

  • np - Better npm publish.
  • npm-name - Check a package name's availability on npm.
  • gh-home - Open the GitHub page of the repo in the current directory.
  • npm-home - Open the npm page of a package.
  • trash - Safer alternative to rm.
  • speed-test - Test your internet connection speed and ping.
  • pageres - Capture website screenshots.
  • cpy - Copy files.
  • vtop - More better top, with nice charts.
  • empty-trash - Empty the trash.
  • is-up - Check whether a website is up or down.
  • is-online - Check if the internet connection is up.
  • public-ip - Get your public IP address.
  • clipboard-cli - Copy & paste on the terminal.
  • XO - Enforce strict code style using the JavaScript happiness style.
  • ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.
  • David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.
  • http-server - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
  • Live Server - Development HTTP-server with livereload capability.
  • bcat - Pipe command output to web browsers.
  • normit - Google Translate with speech synthesis in your terminal.
  • fkill - Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.
  • pjs - Pipeable JavaScript. Quickly filter, map, and reduce from the terminal.
  • license-checker - Check licenses of your app's dependencies.
  • browser-run - Easily run code in a browser environment.
  • tmpin - Adds stdin support to any CLI app that accepts file input.
  • wallpaper - Change the desktop wallpaper.
  • pen - Live Markdown preview in the browser from your favorite editor.
  • dark-mode - Toggle the macOS Dark Mode.
  • Jsome - Pretty prints JSON with configurable colors and indentation.
  • mobicon - Mobile app icon generator.
  • mobisplash - Mobile app splash screen generator.
  • diff2html-cli - Pretty git diff to HTML generator.
  • trymodule - Try out npm packages in the terminal.
  • jscpd - Copy/paste detector for source code.
  • atmo - Server-side API mocking.
  • auto-install - Auto installs dependencies as you code.
  • cost-of-modules - Find out which dependencies are slowing you down.
  • localtunnel - Expose your localhost to the world.
  • svg-term-cli - Share terminal sessions via SVG.
  • gtop - System monitoring dashboard for the terminal.
  • themer - Generate themes for your editor, terminal, wallpaper, Slack, and more.
  • carbon-now-cli - Beautiful images of your code — from right inside your terminal.
  • cash-cli - Convert between 170 currencies.
  • taskbook - Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat.
  • discharge - Easily deploy static websites to Amazon S3.
  • npkill - Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules folders.

Functional programming

  • lodash - Utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.
  • immutable - Immutable data collections.
  • Ramda - Utility library with a focus on flexible functional composition enabled by automatic currying and reversed argument order. Avoids mutating data.
  • Mout - Utility library with the biggest difference between other existing solutions is that you can choose to load only the modules/functions that you need, no extra overhead.
  • RxJS - Functional reactive library for transforming, composing, and querying various kinds of data.
  • Kefir.js - Reactive library with focus on high performance and low memory usage.

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.
  • node-fetch - window.fetch for Node.js.
  • axios - Promise based HTTP client (works in the browser too).
  • superagent - HTTP request library.
  • 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.

Debugging / Profiling

  • debug - Tiny debugging utility.
  • why-is-node-running - Node.js is running but you don't know why?
  • njsTrace - Instrument and trace your code, see all function calls, arguments, return values, as well as the time spent in each function.
  • vstream - Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.
  • stackman - Enhance an error stacktrace with code excerpts and other goodies.
  • locus - Starts a REPL at runtime that has access to all variables.
  • 0x - Flamegraph profiling.
  • ctrace - Well-formatted and improved trace system calls and signals.
  • 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.
  • thetool - Capture different CPU, memory, and other profiles for your app in Chrome DevTools friendly format.
  • 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.

Logging

  • pino - Extremely fast logger inspired by Bunyan.
  • winston - Multi-transport async logging library.
  • console-log-level - The most simple logger imaginable with support for log levels and custom prefixes.
  • storyboard - End-to-end, hierarchical, real-time, colorful logs and stories.
  • consola - Console logger.

Command-line utilities

  • chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
  • meow - CLI app helper.
  • yargs - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.
  • ora - Elegant terminal spinner.
  • get-stdin - Easier stdin.
  • log-update - Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
  • Ink - React for interactive command-line apps.
  • listr2 - Terminal task list.
  • conf - Simple config handling for your app or module.
  • ansi-escapes - ANSI escape codes for manipulating the terminal.
  • log-symbols - Colored symbols for various log levels.
  • figures - Unicode symbols with Windows CMD fallbacks.
  • boxen - Create boxes in the terminal.
  • terminal-link - Create clickable links in the terminal.
  • terminal-image - Display images in the terminal.
  • string-width - Get the visual width of a string - the number of columns required to display it.
  • cli-truncate - Truncate a string to a specific width in the terminal.
  • blessed - Curses-like library.
  • Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.
  • yn - Parse yes/no like values.
  • cli-table3 - Pretty unicode tables.
  • drawille - Draw on the terminal with unicode braille characters.
  • ascii-charts - ASCII bar chart in the terminal.
  • progress - Flexible ascii progress bar.
  • insight - Helps you understand how your tool is being used by anonymously reporting usage metrics to Google Analytics.
  • cli-cursor - Toggle the CLI cursor.
  • cli-columns - Columnated unicode and ansi-safe text lists.
  • cfonts - Sexy ASCII fonts for the console.
  • multispinner - Multiple, simultaneous, individually controllable CLI spinners.
  • omelette - Shell autocompletion helper.
  • cross-env - Set environment variables cross-platform.
  • shelljs - Portable Unix shell commands.
  • sudo-block - Block users from running your app with root permissions.
  • sparkly - Generate sparklines ▁▂▃▅▂▇.
  • Bit - Create, maintain, find and use small modules and components across repositories.
  • gradient-string - Beautiful color gradients in terminal output.
  • oclif - CLI framework complete with parser, automatic documentation, testing, and plugins.
  • terminal-size - Reliably get the terminal window size.
  • Cliffy - Framework for interactive CLIs.
  • zx - Write shell scripts JavaScript.

Build tools

  • parcel - Blazing fast, zero config web app bundler.
  • webpack - Packs modules and assets for the browser.
  • rollup - Next-generation ES2015 module bundler.
  • gulp - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
  • Broccoli - Fast, reliable asset pipeline, supporting constant-time rebuilds and compact build definitions.
  • Brunch - Front-end web app build tool with simple declarative config, fast incremental compilation, and an opinionated workflow.
  • FuseBox - Fast build system that combines the power of webpack, JSPM and SystemJS, with first-class TypeScript support.
  • pkg - Package your Node.js project into an executable.
  • Vite - Front-end build tool with hot module replacement and static asset bundling.

Hardware

  • johnny-five - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
  • serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
  • usb - USB library.
  • 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.
  • gps - NMEA parser for handling GPS receivers.
  • modbus-serial - A pure JavaScript implementation of MODBUS-RTU (serial and TCP).

Templating

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