25 Amazing Open Source Node.js Projects for the Past Year (v.2018)

For the past year, we’ve compared nearly 4,700 Node.js open source projects to pick Top 25 (0.5% chance).

This is an extremely competitive list and it picks the best open source Node.js projects published between Jan and Dec, 2017. Mybridge AI carefully evaluates the quality by considering popularity, engagement and recency. To give you an idea about the quality, the average number of Github stars is 4,078 ⭐️

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No 1

Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API [22101 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Andrey Lushnikov at Google Engineering

No 2

faker.js — generate massive amounts of fake data in the browser and node.js [12497 stars on Github]. Courtesy of marak

No 3

Pkg: Package your Node.js project into an executable [8510 stars on Github].

No 4

Sharp: High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library [6979 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Lovell Fuller

No 5

Lowdb: A small local JSON database powered by Lodash (supports Node, Electron and the browser) [6722 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Typicode

No 6

Portainer: Simple management UI for Docker [6170 stars on Github].

No 7

Fastify: Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js [5825 stars on Github].

No 8

Agenda: Lightweight job scheduling for Node.js [3538 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Ryan Schmukler

No 9

Nodejs-dashboard: Telemetry dashboard for node.js apps from the terminal [3161 stars on Github].

No 10

Node-prune: a small tool to remove unnecessary files from ./node_modules, such as markdown, typescript source files, and so on. [3135 stars on Github]. Courtesy of TJ Holowaychuk

No 11

Nest: A modern node.js framework for efficient and scalable web applications built on top of TypeScript [3012 stars on Github].

No 12

Home Automation: Raspberry Pi 3 based home automation with NodeJS and React Native. [2971 stars on Github].

No 13

Server: Simple and powerful server for Node.js [2924 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Francisco Presencia

No 14

Node-notifier: A Node.js module for sending notifications on native Mac, Windows and Linux (or Growl as fallback) [2623 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Mikael Brevik

No 15

Pdf-bot: A Node queue API for generating PDFs using headless Chrome. Comes with a CLI, S3 storage and webhooks for notifying subscribers about generated PDFs [2124 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Esben Petersen

No 16

Node-compiler: Compiling your Node.js application into a single executable with dynamic require and all fs.* API support. [1904 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Minqi Pan

No 17

Massive-js: A data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL. [1977 stars on Github].

No 18

Ohm: A library for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc. [1696 stars on Github]. Patrick Dubroy at Lyft Engineering

No 19

Terminal-kit: Terminal utilities for node.js [970 stars on Github].

No 20

Node-draftlog: Create updatable log lines into the terminal, and give life to your log [841 stars on Github]. Ivan Seidel Gomes

No 21

Nodejs-mobile: A full-fledged Node.js runtime for Android and iOS [733 stars on Github].

No 22

Dawson: A serverless framework for Node.js on AWS. Courtesy of Simone Lusenti

No 23

Bent: Functional HTTP client for Node.js w/ async/await. [358 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Mikeal

No 24

Spikenail: A GraphQL API Framework for Node.js [272 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Igor Lesnenko

No 25

ClusterWS: A minimal Node JS http & real-time framework which allows to scale WebSocket between Workers in Node JS Cluster and utilize all available CPU [192 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Dmitrii Goriunov

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