What are some useful npm packages I might not know about?

I'm getting back into that JavaScript life and I'd love some suggestions about some libs I might want to check out. If you're an author of something, please feel free to pitch me. 😄

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[Nikhil N Namal]

I wrote this simple npm package called "popular-movie-quotes". A simple NPM package to get popular movie quotes with zero dependencies. Maybe this can help you with a movie-themed side project.

npmjs.com/package/popular-movie-qu...

[Nick Taylor]

I haven't tried these yet, but Jason Miller's packages for moving things to web workers look very interesting.

• workerize: Moves a module into a Web Worker, automatically reflecting exported functions as asynchronous proxies.
• greenlet: Move an async function into its own thread.

[Jim Schubert]

npmjs.com/package/json-server

Creates a pretty full featured REST API from a JSON file of data. Great for spinning up a fake backend quickly.

Not my package. ;)

[Corey Butler]

Here's my completely biased list (yes, I wrote them all):

Background Daemons/Services:

• node-windows
• node-mac
• node-linux

porthog identifies which application is using a specified port, providing the process name and PID. Works for Windows, OSX, and most flavors of Unix that support the lsof operation.

shortbus is basically an awesome task runner capable of executing processing queues, running them sequentially or simultaneously, and modifying the queue dynamically. Kinda like promises, but more dynamic.

localenvironment is a simple way to define lots of environment variables using an env.json file.

musthave provides a simple and standard way of checking for object attributes. The inspiration for this project was checking for the existence of environment variables.

And of course, nvm for Windows if you happen to be a Windows user. (I know, not really a module).

[Eric McCormick]

A lot of the more interesting node packages I use are apparently cli based. Here are a few I find to be pretty interesting:

• speed-test
• serve
• tiny-care-terminal, since sometimes I need a reminder of what I've accomplished; shows last 24 hrs and last week's git commits, motivational quotes, configurable
• ngrok, for lazy tcp tunnels
• next-update, see what you can upgrade your deps to without failing tests
• tldr handy tl;dr docs in cli
• vtop
• webpack-dashboard for a better view of webpack-dev-server's output

[Kris Siegel]

I heard the msngr.js package is an awesome messaging library that helps with decoupling code. Some amazing person, who I don't know at all what so ever, put it together.

github.com/KrisSiegel/msngr.js

[Ben Halpern]

😄

[Ricardo Bánffy]

For naming servers, projects or things, npmjs.com/package/nsaname

(disclaimer - I built it, and no, it's not really useful)

[bigShai]

extendify is a helpful tool to extend jsons in a deep way. simple and powerful.

[Artak Vardanyan]

A zeronode - its a minimal block for creating microservices. It's manages reconnecting, message queueing, has request/reply and tick (fire and forget) and lots of other goodness in the box
npmjs.com/package/zeronode

[Andrey]

did you try nixar (askucher.github.io/nixarweb/#/)? :)