Contents
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- David - Tells you when your package npm dependencies are out of date.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
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- 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 in JavaScript.
- 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.
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