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 ⭐️
- JavaScript Projects of the Year (avg. 4,866 ⭐️): Here
- React.js Open Source of the Year (avg. 3,366 ⭐️): Here
Open source projects can be useful for programmers. You can learn by reading the source code and build something on top of the existing projects. Give a plenty of time to play around with Node.js open source projects you may have missed for the past year.
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No 1
Puppeteer: Headless Chrome Node API [22101 stars on Github]. Courtesy of Andrey Lushnikov at Google Engineering
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 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 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 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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