node-sandbox

is a git repo for playing around with various things related to JavaScript/node.js.

modules used

fs: filesystem stuff - system calls, file I/O with streaming/non-streaming and sync/async versions.
path: utilities for manipulating filepaths (think os.path.join() from Python!)
http: HTTP server/client library.
https: the HTTPS counterpart to http.
crypto: secure hashing and other cryptographic utilities.
util: miscellaneous utilities, like util.format() for printf()-like formatting.
events: EventEmitter and other events-related utilities.
url: utilities for URL and query string parsing.

express: thin layer over connect, which itself is a thin middleware layer over http.
connect-mongo: session persistence middleware, using MongoDB as a backing store.
stylus: transpiled syntactic sugar for CSS, used for cleaner stylesheets in express.
mongodb: the native node.js MongoDB library.
mongoose: ODM layer over mongodb.
underscore: utility function library, for easier Array/Object manipulation.
node-uuid: generates UUIDs. Useful for salted hashed password mechanisms.
should: BDD testing toolkit for making tests more readable using a chained property lookup syntax like n.should.equal(42).
supertest: testing toolkit for making requests against a server created with http.createServer(). Useful for API testing.
async: simple utilities for async control flow, mapping, etc.
socket.io: two-way client-server communication made easy.