A curated list of astonishing Node.js frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by awesome-php and awesome-python.

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• Awesome Node.js
  • Application Servers
  • Async Control Flow
  • Authentication and OAuth
  • Build Tools
  • Communication
  • Content Management System
  • Database Drivers
  • Debugging Tools
  • Documentation
  • Environment Management
  • Files and MIME Type Manipulation
  • Forms
  • Integrated Development Environments
  • Logging
  • ORM
  • Package Management
  • Rate Limiting
  • RESTful API
  • Science
  • Templating
  • Testing
  • Tools for building CLIs
  • Web Frameworks
  • Miscellaneous
• Tutorials
• Books
• Blogs
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Application Server is an environment to run and manage multiple applications.

• Impress - Impressive multipurpose scalable Application Server optimized for high load API and web applications.

Libraries that help you manage asyncronous control flow and avoid callback hell.

• Callback-based:
  • Async - Utility module which provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript.
  • each-async - Async concurrent iterator like forEach.
  • node-seq - Chainable asynchronous flow control for node.js with sequential and parallel primitives and pipeline-style error handling.
• Promise-based (Promises/A+):
  • Bluebird - Bluebird is a fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.
  • Q - Full-featured promise library with large API covering any situation you may encounter.
  • RSVP.js - Lightweight, but still compliant, promise library.
  • when.js - Rock solid, battle tested promise library.
• Fibers-base (node-fibers):
  • asyncawait - Inspired by C# async/await feature, implementation of the same pattern using fibers.
• Generator-based:
  • Co - Generator based flow-control goodness for nodejs and the browser.
  • suspend - Generator-based control flow that plays nice with callbacks, promises, and thunks.

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• everyauth - Authentication and authorization (password, facebook, & more) for your Connect and Express apps.
• ldapjs - Pure JavaScript, from-scratch framework for implementing LDAP clients and servers.
• Lockit - Full featured authentication solution for Express.
• oauth-signature-js - OAuth 1.0a signature generator
• PassportJS - Simple authentication middleware framework.
• passwordless - Token-based authentication middleware for Express allowing authentication without passwords.

Libraries for building and task running

• Browserify - Browserify lets you require('modules') in the browser by bundling up all of your dependencies.
• Grunt.js - A task runner to ease epetitive tasks like unit testing, compilation and so on.
• Gulp.js - A streaming build system which use of streams and code-over-configuration.
• Nodemon - A dev utility that monitor any changes in source and automatically restart server.

• BinaryJS - BinaryJS is bidrectional realtime binary data with binary websockets
• Primus - An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.
• Socket.IO - Websocket framework for Node and Javascript.
• SocketCluster - Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.
• SockJS - Websocket emulation.
• Straw - Real-time dataflow framework.

• Calipso - Calipso is a simple CMS, built along similar themes to Drupal and Wordpress.
• KeystoneJS - Node.js CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.

Libraries for connecting and operating databases

• Node-mongodb-native - Mongo DB Native NodeJS Driver.
• Node-mysql - A pure node.js JavaScript Client implementing the MySql protocol.
• Node-redis - Redis Driver, use hideredis for native parser, and checkout then-redis for a Promise-based API.

Tools for debugging Node applications

• cf-node-debug - Proxy to aid in debugging node running on a PaaS.
• debug - Tiny debugging utility.
• jstrace - Dynamic tracing for JavaScript, similar to dtrace, ktap etc.
• longjohn - Longer stack traces for Node.
• node-inspector - Node.js debugger based on Blink Developer Tools.
• Nodev - Tool for easier debugging based on nodemon and node-inspector.
• stackman - Enhance an error stacktrace with code excerpts and other goodies.
• Theseus - A new type of JavaScript debugger featuring real-time code coverage, retroactive inspection and asynchronous call tree.
• TraceGL - Transforms your JavaScript, injecting monitoring code that produces a log of everything that happens.
• TypesJs - Easy type checking, for Node & browsers.
• vstream - Instrumentable streams mix-ins to inspect a pipeline of streams.

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• Docco - Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator, written in Literate CoffeeScript.
• dox - JavaScript documentation generator for node using markdown and jsdoc.
• Groc - Documentation generation, in the spirit of literate programming.

Libraries for Node version and environment management.

• n - Node version management.
• nave - Virtual Environments for Node.
• nodeenv - Virtual environment for Node.js & integrator with virtualenv.
• nvm - Node Version Manager (does not require prior installation of node).

• PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and browser.

Libraries for deal with forms and form data

• express-validator - An express.js middleware for node-validator.
• node-validator - A simple string validation and sanitization.

IDEs and Editors for development

• Atom - The hackable editor by GitHub
• Brackets - An open source code editor for the web, written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
• Cloud Commander - Web file manager. Has editor and console. Allows you to develop web applications, sites etc.
• Cloud9 - Web editor with collaboration tools.
• CmdEr - Not really and IDE, but a great "lovely console emulator package for Windows"
• Enide - Node Eclipse IDE with Nodeclipse plugin.
• InteliJIDEA - Fast Node plugin for InteliJ.
• Notepad++ - Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages.
• Visual Studio - With Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (Supports editing, IntelliSense, profiling, npm, TypeScript, debugging locally and remotely on Windows/MacOS/Linux)
• Webstorm - "Create great websites and applications in a great IDE. The best JavaScript IDE and HTML editor is at your service."

Tools for generating and working with log files.

• Bunyan - A simple and fast JSON logging module for node.js services.
• caterpillar - A logging system that can log and pipe the output off to different locations.
• intel - A comprehensive logging library (handlers, filters, formatters, console injection).
• Log.io - Real time logging facility on the browser.
• tracer - A powerful and customizable logging library for node.js.
• winston - A multi-transport async logging library.

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.

• Mongoose - Almost an ORM for mongodb.
• Node-orm2 - Another Relational Object Mapper.
• Sequelize - Sequelize library provides easy access to MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite or PostgreSQL databases.
• Waterline - Datastore-agnostic tool that dramatically simplifies interaction with one or more databases.

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• Duo - A next-generation package manager for the front-end.
• npm - Default package manager. Installs, publishes and manages node programs.

Libraries that help restrict the frequency of certain actions.

• Bottleneck - A powerful rate limiter that makes throttling easy.

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

• Heimdall - REST API Guardian for Express.
• Node-restify - A node.js module built specifically to build correct REST web services.
• Sails - MVC framework which generates a RESTful JSON API.

Things some awesome crazy people are doing!

• BitcoinJS - Clean, readable, proven Bitcoin library.
• Breach - Modular and hackable browser written in JavaScript.
• dat - Real-time replication and versioning for data sets.
• ipfs - Distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files.
• js-git - JavaScript implementation of Git.
• NodeOS - The first operating system powered by npm.
• PDFKit - PDF generation library.
• peercast - Stream a torrent video to Chromecast.
• peerflix - Streaming torrent client.
• peerwiki - All of Wikipedia on BitTorrent.
• turf - Modular geospatial processing and analysis engine.
• webtorrent - Streaming torrent client for Node.js and the browser.

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• ECT - "Fastest JavaScript template engine with embedded CoffeeScript syntax" as they say (benchmark proof).
• handlebars.js - A superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.
• hogan.js - Twitter's small, fast, phase-separated compiler for Mustache templates.
• Jade - Handful node template engine.
• nunjucks - A powerful templating engine with inheritance, asynchronous control, and more (jinja2 inspired).
• Swig - A simple, powerful, and extendable JavaScript Template Engine.

Testing frameworks.

• chai - BDD / TDD assertion framework for node.js and the browser that can be paired with any testing framework.
• Concrete - Continuous integration server.
• Expresso - TDD framework for Node.
• Jasmine - Simple Behavioral tests for Node and Javascript.
• Jezebel - A REPL and continuous test runner for Node.js Jasmine tests.
• mocha - Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on node.js and the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
• Mochify - TDD with Browserify, Mocha, PhantomJS and WebDriver.
• NodeUnit - Simple syntax unit test tool.
• ready.js - Continuous javascript integration tool.
• should.js - BDD style assertions for node.js -- test framework agnostic.
• sinon - Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript.
• tape - tap-producing test harness for node and browsers.

Libraries and tools which support you by building Command-Line Interfaces.

• blessed - A curses-like library for node.js.
• chalk - Terminal string styling done right
• cli-spinner - A simple spinner for node cli.
• cli-table - Pretty unicode tables for the CLI with Node.JS
• cli - Rapidly build command line apps with node.
• colors.js - get colors in your node.js console like what.
• commander.js - The complete solution for node.js command-line interfaces, inspired by Ruby's commander.
• configstore - Easily load and persist config without having to think about where and how.
• Inquirer - A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. Ask questions, parsing, validating answers, managing hierarchical prompts and providing error feedback.
• log-symbols - Colored symbols for various log levels.https://github.com/sindresorhus/log-symbols
• minimist - Simple module for command line arguments parsing.
• nomnom - Option parser for node with generated usage and commands.
• read - For reading user input from stdin.
• terminal-menu - retro ansi terminal menus for serious 80s technicolor business.
• text-table - generate borderless text table strings suitable for printing to stdout.

Web development frameworks.

• Derby - MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.
  • Derby-awesome - A collection of awesome derby components
• Express - A minimal and flexible node.js web application framework.
• Flatiron - An adaptable framework for building modern web applications.
• Hapi - A rich framework for building applications and services.
• HuntJS - event driven framework for building clustered webservers, telnet and background applications with mongoose or sequilize as data storage.
• Interfake - Rapid prototyping framework for making mock HTTP APIs, with a Node, command-line and HTTP interface.
• Koa - A framework which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications.
• LoopBack - Powerful Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.
• Meteor - A platform that has strong features such as live page update, sync and hopt code pushes.
• Restify - A node framework built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.
• SailsJS - An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.
• Totaljs - Friendly responsive design web application framework for node.
• Catberry - Framework with Flux architecture, isomorphic web-components and progressive rendering.

• Calipso - Calipso is a simple CMS, built along similar themes to Drupal and Wordpress.
• KeystoneJS - Node.js CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB.

Miscellaneous Tools which doesn't fit to the other categories.

• agenda - Lightweight job scheduling on MongoDB.
• atom-shell - Cross-platform desktop application shell.
• cheerio - Fast, flexible, and lean implementation of core jQuery designed specifically for the server.
• common-errors - Common error classes and utility functions.
• Faker.js - Generate massive amounts of fake data.
• Github Linker - Chrome extension that linkifies dependencies in package.json on GitHub.
• lazy-req - Require modules lazily.
• multiline - Multiline strings in JavaScript.
• nan - A header file filled with macro and utility goodness for making add-on development for across Node.js versions easier.
• Node-Bell - Real-time anomalies detection for periodic time series.
• node-pre-gyp - Makes it easy to publish and install Node.js C++ addons from binaries.
• opencv - Bindings for OpenCV. The defacto computer vision library.
• opn - Opens stuff like websites, files, executables.
• require-uncached - Require a module bypassing the cache.
• semver - semver parser.
• shelljs - Portable Unix shell commands.
• ssh2 - An SSH2 client module.
• stringify-object - Stringify an object/array like JSON.stringify just without all the double-quotes.
• strip-bom - Strip UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM) from a string/buffer/stream.
• webworker-threads - Lightweight Web Worker API implementation with native threads.

• browserify-handbook - The definitive guide for browserify.
• module-best-practices - Some good practices when writing new npm modules.
• Nodeschool - Learn Node.js with interactive lessons.
• stream-handbook - How to write Node.js programs with streams.
• The Art of Node - An introduction to Node.js.

• Mastering Node
• Mixu's Node book
• Node.js in Action
• Practical Node.js: Building Real-World Scalable Web Apps
• Professional Node.js: Building Javascript Based Scalable Software
• Web Development with Node and Express

• HowToNode - Teaching how to do various tasks in Node.js as well as teach fundamental concepts that are needed to write effective code.
• Node.js blog

Other amazingly awesome lists can be found in the awesome-awesome and awesome-awesomeness projects.

Chinese awesome-nodejs version by @ueqt.

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