urban/awesome-development

A curated list of packages and resources I use in front-end development.

Awesome Development

A curated list of packages and resources that I find useful for development.

Inspired by the awesome list thing by Sindre Sorhus and Essential JavaScript Links by Eric Elliott.

Packages

• Package managers
• Build tools
• Command-line apps
• Functional programming
• HTTP
• Web frameworks
• Command-line utilities
• Hardware
• Templating
• Documentation
• Filesystem
• Control flow
• Streams
• Real-time
• Date
• Image
• Text
• Math
• Data validation
• Parsing
• Humanize
• Compression
• Network
• Static site generators
• Content management systems
• Forum
• Blogging
• Database
• Testing
• Benchmarking
• Minifiers
• Authentication
• Node.js management
• Email
• Polyfills
• Natural language processing
• Process management
• AST
• Miscellaneous

Package managers

• Bower - A package manager for the web.
• npm - A package manager for Node.js and the web.

Build tools

• babel
  • babel-core
• browserify - Browser-side require() the Node.js way.
• gulp.js - Streaming and fast build system that favors code over config.
  • gulp-changed
  • gulp-concat
  • gulp-concat
  • gulp-data
  • gulp-if
  • gulp-load-plugins
  • gulp-rename
  • gulp-sourcemaps
  • gulp-util
• PostCSS - Framework for CSS postprocessors, to modify CSS.
  • autoprefixer-core
  • csswring
• webpack - Packs CommonJS/AMD modules for the browser.
  • babel-loader
  • extract-text-webpack-plugin
  • postcss-loader
  • sass-loader
  • url-loader

Command-line apps

• http-server - Simple, zero-config command-line HTTP server.
• standard - JavaScript Standard Style.

Functional programming

• immutable - Immutable data collections.
• lodash - A utility library delivering consistency, customization, performance, & extras. A better and faster Underscore.js.

HTTP

• nets - HTTP client that works in node and browsers.
• request - Simplified HTTP request client.
• superagent - A small progressive HTTP request library.

Web frameworks

• Koa - A new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.
• Restify - A node framework built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.

Command-line utilities

• chalk - Terminal string styling done right.
• Inquirer.js - Interactive command-line prompt.

Hardware

• johnny-five - Firmata based Arduino Framework.
• serialport - Access serial ports for reading and writing.
• cylon.js - Next generation robotics framework with support for 26 different platforms.
• onoff GPIO access and interrupt detection with Node.js.

Templating

• handlebars.js - A superset of Mustache templates which adds powerful features like helpers and more advanced blocks.

Documentation

• dox - JavaScript documentation generator using Markdown and JSDoc.

Filesystem

• del - Delete files/folders using globs.
• globby - Glob files with support for multiple patterns.
• cpy - Copy files.
• rimraf - Recursively delete files like rm -rf.
• mkdirp - Recursively create directories like mkdir -p.
• fs-extra - Extra methods for the fs module.
• look-up - Find the first file matching a given pattern in the current directory or the nearest ancestor directory.

Control flow

• Callbacks
  • async - Provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronousity.
• Generators
  • co - The ultimate generator based flow-control goodness.
• Promises
  • Bluebird - A fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance.

Streams

• through2 - Tiny wrapper around streams2 Transform to avoid explicit subclassing noise.
• concat-stream - Concatenates a stream into strings or binary data.
• co-stream - co generator stream.

Real-time

• Socket.io - Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

Date

• Moment.js - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates.
• Moment Timezone - IANA Time Zone Database + Moment.js.

Image

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Text

• camelcase - Convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase: foo-bar → fooBar.
• normalize-url - Normalize a URL.
• humanize-url - Humanize a URL: http://sindresorhus.com → sindresorhus.com.

Math

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Data validation

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Parsing

• marked - A markdown parser and compiler built for speed.
• csv-parser - Streaming CSV parser that aims to be faster than everyone else.

Humanize

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Compression

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Network

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Static site generators

• Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator.

Content management systems

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Forum

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Blogging

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Database

• Drivers
  • LevelUP - LevelDB.
  • MongoDB - MongoDB driver.

Testing

• tape - TAP-producing test harness.
• Mocha - A feature-rich test framework making asynchronous testing simple and fun.

Benchmarking

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Minifiers

• UglifyJS2 - JavaScript minifier.
• clean-css - CSS minifier.

Authentication

• Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication.
• Grant - OAuth middleware for Express, Koa and Hapi.

Node.js management

• nvm - Simple bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions.
• nvm for Windows - Version management for Windows.

Email

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Polyfills

• JavaScript
  • object-assign - ES6 Object.assign() ponyfill.
  • es6-shim - Collection of ES6 polyfills.
  • More ES6 polyfills at es6-tools.
  • fastclick - Removes click delays on browsers with touch UIs.

Natural language processing

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Process management

• nodemon - Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server.

AST

• Acorn - A tiny, fast JavaScript parser.

Miscellaneous

• semver - semver parser.
• Electron - Build cross platform desktop apps with web technologies. (You might like awesome-electron)

Resources

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License

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