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Allows you to create and handle json web tokens for authenticating users.
A library of string validators and sanitizers.
AutoPrefixer is a post-css plugin to parse CSS and add vendor prefixes to CSS rules using values from Can I Use.
Node-sass is a library that provides binding for Node.js to LibSass allowing you to natively compile .scss files to css at incredible speed and automatically via a connect middleware.
PostCSS Cli is a command line tool that allows you to write CSS pre-processors or post-processors.
The official package for working with MongoDB in Node.
Mongoose is an Object Document Mapper for working with MongoDB.
Pg is a pure JavaScript PostgreSQL client for Node.
Sequelize is an Object Relational Mapper for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.
Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env.
ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/ JavaScript code.
Nodemon watches and automatically restarts the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.
Concatenate multiple files. (use combine css or js into one file)
A CLI tool to run multiple npm-scripts in parallel or sequential.
Used to automatically generate swagger style documentation for your local RESTful web services
An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
Base64-js does basic base64 encoding/decoding in pure JS.
Bcrypt is a c++ library to help you hash passwords (faster). Bcryptjs is optimized in JavaScript with zero dependencies.
Express is a minimal and flexible Node web application framework providing many features for to simplify the server side web and mobile application developement.
Express session is middleware to enable you to create sessions on your express server.
Axios is an easy to use HTTP client for the browser and Node.
HTTP request logger middleware for node.js
Request is another really simple to use HTTP client. As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. (Though still gets 19+ million weekly downloads)
Bad-words is a simple package that filters out badwords.
Cors provides a Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options.
A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras imported in node modules.
A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.
Multer is a node middleware for handling multipart/form-data, which is primarily used for uploading files. It is written on top of busboy for maximum efficiency.
Sharp is a package used to convert large images in common formats to smaller, web-friendly JPEG, PNG and WebP images of varying dimensions.
Faker is a simple dummy data generator for use both in the browser and with Node.
Get a full fake REST API without writing any code.
React is a JavaScript library for creating front-end UI. The react package only contains the functionality to define React components and is typically used with a React renderer like react-dom or react-native.
This package serves as the entry point to the DOM and server renderers for React. React Native brings React’s declarative UI framework to iOS and Android.
Redux is a predictable state container for JavaScript apps and react-redux is the official React bindings for Redux.
Use Redux Form if you need really tight coupling of your form data with Redux, specifically if you need to subscribe to/modify it from parts of your application on another route. Otherwise React Final Form is recommended.
Redux Thunk middleware allows you to write action creators that return a function instead of an action. The thunk can be used to delay the dispatch of an action, or to dispatch only if a certain condition is met.
Socket.io is an amazingly useful package that enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication over TCP/IP using sockets. It also allows for better control over event handling and the ability to add an HTTP layer to hold open your client connections.
Embeded JavaScript Templating.
Handlebars is an extension to the Mustache templating language.
Chalk is a highly performant and easy to use terminal styling package. It allows you to customize the styling of your terminal messages.
Yargs simplifies building command line tools by nicely parsing the incoming arguments and generating an elegant user interface.
A tiny JavaScript debugging utility modelled after Node’s debugging technique. Works in Node.js and web browsers.
Jest is a super easy to use javascript testing framework that works with zero configurations on almost all Javascript projects.
MongoDB Memory Server downloads mongod binary to the cache and spins up a new database instance in memory for testing.
Small progressive client-side HTTP request library, and Node.js module with the same API, supporting many high-level HTTP client features.
Supertest provides a high-level abstraction for testing HTTP, while still allowing you to drop down to the lower-level API provided by superagent.