Frameworks
- express - http://expressjs.com/ sinatra inspired framework
- restful - https://github.com/baugarten/node-restful REST framework
- restify - http://mcavage.me/node-restify/ REST framework
- mocha - http://visionmedia.github.io/mocha/ test framework
- socket.io - http://socket.io/ realtime websockets, xbc fallbacks
Libraries
- everyauth - https://github.com/bnoguchi/everyauth auth lib, works well with express
- aws-lib - https://github.com/livelycode/aws-lib amazon services lib
- URIjs - https://github.com/medialize/URI.js URL manipulation lib
- async - https://github.com/caolan/async async lib
- request - https://github.com/mikeal/request simplified HTTP req lib
- moment - https://github.com/moment/moment validate/manipulate/display dates
- underscore - http://underscorejs.org/ utility belt lib
- q - https://github.com/kriskowal/q compose asynchronous promises*
- jsdom - https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom js implementation of w3c dom
- jquery - https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/blob/master/example/jquery/run.js use via jsdom
- )cheerio - http://matthewmueller.github.io/cheerio/ alternative to JSDOM, similar to jq
- xml2js - https://github.com/Leonidas-from-XIV/node-xml2js convert xml to js object
Testing
- password - http://passportjs.org/ authentication lib
- nodeunit - https://github.com/caolan/nodeunit easy unit testing, based on assert module
Mailers
- nodemailer - https://github.com/andris9/nodemailer simple node emailer
- emailjs - https://github.com/eleith/emailjs mail engine lib
Database
- mongoose - https://github.com/LearnBoost/mongoose mongodb object modeling
- redis - https://github.com/mranney/node_redis redis client
Supersets / Preprocessors / Template Engines
- jade - https://github.com/visionmedia/jade template engine (haml-ish)
- hogan - https://github.com/vol4ok/hogan-express template engine made by twitter
- stylus - https://github.com/visionmedia/jade robust css superset (sass-ish)
- nib - http://visionmedia.github.io/nib/ mixin library for stylus
- coffeescript - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script *unfancy javascript
Parsers
- marked - https://github.com/chjj/marked fast markdown parser/compiler
Builders / Debugging
- nodemon - https://github.com/remy/nodemon monitor/watch script for live development
- debug - https://github.com/visionmedia/debug tiny nodejs/browser debugging tool
- grunt - https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt js task runner
Compression / Optimization
- uglify - https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2 js minifier/compressor/beautifier