A curated list of astonishing Node.js frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by awesome-php.
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- Docco - Docco is a quick-and-dirty documentation generator, written in Literate CoffeeScript.
- Groc - Documentation generation, in the spirit of literate programming.
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- Npm - Default package manager. Installs, publishes and manages node programs.
Libraties for connecting and operating databases
- Node-mysql - A pure node.js JavaScript Client implementing the MySql protocol.
- Node-mongodb-native - Mongo DB Native NodeJS Driver.
Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.
- Sequelize - Sequelize library provides easy access to MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite or PostgreSQL databases.
- Node-orm2 - Another Relational Object Mapper.
- Mongoose - Almost an ORM for mongodb
Web development frameworks.
- Express - A minimal and flexible node.js web application framework.
- Flatiron - An adaptable framework for building modern web applications.
- Koa - A framework which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications.
- Totaljs - Friendly responsive design web application framework for node.
- Meteor - A platform that has strong features such as live page update, sync and hopt code pushes
Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.
- Sails - MVC framework which generates a RESTful JSON API.
- Node-restify - A node.js module built specifically to build correct REST web services.
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- PassportJS Simple authentification framework
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- ECT - "Fastest JavaScript template engine with embedded CoffeeScript syntax" as they say (benchmark proof)
- Jade - Handful node template engine.
- Swig - A simple, powerful, and extendable JavaScript Template Engine.
Your contributions are always welcome!