Useful Nodejs Packages

Today I would like to share about useful packages of Nodejs. The followings are a collection of some useful packages for Nodejs. Let’s take a look.

Web Frameworks

express

Express is the most popular, fast, and minimalist web framework for node.js backends.

socket.io

Socket.IO enabled real-time bidirectional event-based communication using long-polling or webSockets with disconnection detection and auto-reconnection support.

Utility Functions

async

Async is a module with powerful utility functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript.

rxjs

RxJS is a modular set of libraries to compose asynchronous and event-based programs using observable collections and compositions in JavaScript.

lodash

Lodash is a utility library that makes JavaScript easier by taking the hassle out of working with arrays, numbers, objects, strings, etc.

underscore

Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides support for the usual functional suspects (each, map, reduce, filter, etc.) without extending any core JavaScript objects.

ramda

Ramda is a practical, functional library with side-effect free functions composable with currying.

validator

Validator is a library of string validators and sanitizers.

day.js

Day.js is a minimalist JavaScript library that parses, validates, manipulates, and displays dates and times for modern browsers with a largely Moment-compatible API.

date-fns

Date-fns provides the most comprehensive, yet simple and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js.

jsonwebtoken

Jsonwebtoken is a library to sign, verify and decode JSON Web Tokens.

bcrypt

Bcrypt is a library to hash and verify passwords with sync, callbacks, and promise interface.

uuid

UUID is a library to create RFC4122 universally unique identifiers.

Working With File System

fs-extra

FS-extra adds file system methods that aren’t included in the native fs module and adds promise support to the fs methods.

mkdirp

Just like mkdir -p, mkdirp recursively creates the directory and all necessary subdirectories.

glob

Glob is a library to match files using multiple patterns.

Working with Emails

Nodemailler

Nodemailer is a secure framework that handles email management in your Node.js applications.

This is all for now.

Hope you enjoy that.

By Asahi