Best libraries for node.js

Here is a growing selection of the most useful libraries for node.

Node JS Core modules

• PATH Allow to work on path and urls. Split a path, take the file name... https://nodejs.org/api/path.html

• FS : Allow to work on file to save file on disk... https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html

Libraries for Node.js

Express

• CORS : Middleware to help make a CORS settings! https://github.com/expressjs/cors

• Morgan : Http request logging Middleware Similar to the apache log, log the request that express made with the level of information you wish https://github.com/expressjs/morgan

Logging

• Winston

  Log action to a file or database, or online service

  https://github.com/winstonjs/winston

Utilities

• Lodash : the utility library for javascript

  https://lodash.com

Http

• Request && Request promise

  Popular library to do http requests in an easy and powerful way.

  can pipe the result to other requests or to a file stream...

https://github.com/request/request

It's port with promise powered by blue bird https://github.com/request/request-promise

Async & Promises

• Async : Aynschronous call (a sort of lodash for asynchronous operation) http://caolan.github.io/async/docs.html#

• Blue bird : Blue bird is the more popular promise library for node.js Though promise are in the core node.js language there are multiple arguments to keep using a library like blue bird.

http://bluebirdjs.com/

Caching

• Node Cache manager This library seems to be the more complete. The advantage of this caching library is that it decoupled caching storage from caching configuration so it is possible to cache in redis, memory, file system.... https://github.com/BryanDonovan/node-cache-manager

• Memory cache (also node-cache in github) This library seems to be the more popular thanks to its simplicity Example implementation in that tuto https://github.com/ptarjan/node-cache

• Express Redis cache Example implementation in that tuto https://github.com/rv-kip/express-redis-cache

• Node Caching https://github.com/mape/node-caching

• Node cache https://github.com/mpneuried/nodecache

Uploading

• Multer Node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data. > handle image upload more easily. Multer is based on busboy.

https://github.com/expressjs/multer

• busboy File multi part upload parser

https://github.com/mscdex/busboy

• gridfs-stream Mongodb file streamer to save with gridFS

https://github.com/aheckmann/gridfs-stream

• node-formidable Parser for form and upload

  https://github.com/felixge/node-formidable

Image manipulation

• Jimp : Image processing in javascript without any external dependencies https://github.com/oliver-moran/jimp

• Graphic magic : Image resizing...

http://aheckmann.github.io/gm/

Export, parser

• XLS Parser XlS Parser

https://github.com/mgcrea/node-xlsx

• Node excel Export : Export to excel https://github.com/functionscope/Node-Excel-Export

• node Excel Export : Lees popular but the config seems more complete... and the doc is better

https://github.com/andreyan-andreev/node-excel-export

• json2xls Transform a json to a xls with no settings at all (using "excel-export": "~0.3.11" in the background) https://github.com/rikkertkoppes/json2xls/commits/master

• js-xls a js framework to parse xls, and more generally spreadsheet formats... https://github.com/SheetJS/js-xlsx

Error handling

• pretty-error Display errors && error stack in a more elegant way

  https://github.com/AriaMinaei/pretty-error

Templates

• consolidate Consolidate template engines...to have a single API for all !

https://github.com/tj/consolidate.js/

Mongoose plugins

• mongoose simple random add findOneRandom && findRandom to get random document

  https://github.com/larryprice/mongoose-simple-random

• mongoose-autopopulate

• mongoose-deep-populate