A curated list of delightful Node.js packages and resources.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

• Functional programming
• Command-line apps
• HTTP
• Logging
• Web frameworks
• Build tools
• Templating
• Documentation
• Filesystem
• Control flow
• Real-time
• Date
• Parsing
• Static site generators
• Blogging
• Debugging
• Database
• Testing
• Minifiers
• Authentication
• Node.js management
• AST
• Miscellaneous

• Lo-Dash - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.

• npm - A package-manager for Node.js.
• Bower - A package manager for the web.
• PM2 - Advanced Process Manager for Node.js.
• ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript.

• request - Simplified HTTP request client.

• winston - A multi-transport async logging library.

• Express - A minimal and flexible web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
• SailsJS - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.

• gulp.js - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.

• Jade - High performance template engine heavily influenced by Haml.

• Docco - A quick-and-dirty documentation generator which produces an HTML document that displays your comments intermingled with your code.

• fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs module.

• Bluebird - A fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.

• Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.

• marked - A markdown parser and compiler built for speed.

• Jekyll - Simple, Blog-aware static site generator.

• Jekyll - Simple, Blog-aware static site generator.

• node-inspector - Debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.

• Drivers
  • MongoJS - MongoDB driver for Node.js.
  • Redis - Redis client for Node.js.
• ODM / ORM
  • Mongoose - Elegant MongoDB object modeling for Node.js.
  • Waterline - Sails.js ORM across multiple databases (both SQL and no-SQL)

• Mocha - A feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.

• UglifyJS2 - JavaScript minifier.

• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.

• n - Node.js version management.

• Esprima - A high performance, standard-compliant JavaScript parser.

• browserify - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.

• Zolmeister