What is important of pakage.json in node.js and why we using the package.json
Below are showing the showing the some important node packages which is nodej.s developer should know:
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| Async | Async is a utility module which provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript |
| Browserify | Browserify will recursively analyze all the require() calls in your app in order to build a bundle you can serve up to the browser in a single <script> tag |
| Bower | Bower is a package manager for the web It works by fetching and installing packages from all over, taking care of hunting, finding, downloading, and saving the stuff you're looking for |
| Csv | csv module has four sub modules which provides CSV generation, parsing, transformation and serialization for Node.js |
| Debug | Debug is a tiny node.js debugging utility modelled after node core's debugging technique |
| Express | Express is a fast, un-opinionated, minimalist web framework. It provides small, robust tooling for HTTP servers, making it a great solution for single page applications, web sites, hybrids, or public HTTP APIs |
| Grunt | is a JavaScript Task Runner that facilitates creating new projects and makes performing repetitive but necessary tasks such as linting, unit testing, concatenating and minifying files (among other things) trivial |
| Gulp | is a streaming build system that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow |
| Hapi | is a streaming build system that helps you automate painful or time-consuming tasks in your development workflow |
| Http-server | is a simple, zero-configuration command-line http server. It is powerful enough for production usage, but it's simple and hackable enough to be used for testing, local development, and learning |
| Inquirer | A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces |
| Jquery | jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library |
| Jshint | Static analysis tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript code and to enforce your team's coding conventions |
| Koa | Koa is web app framework. It is an expressive HTTP middleware for node.js to make web applications and APIs more enjoyable to write |
| Lodash | The lodash library exported as a node module. Lodash is a modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras |
| Less | The less library exported as a node module |
| Moment | A lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates |
| Mongoose | It is a MongoDB object modeling tool designed to work in an asynchronous environment |
| MongoDB | The official MongoDB driver for Node.js. It provides a high-level API on top of mongodb-core that is meant for end users |
| Npm | is package manager for javascript |
| Nodemon | It is a simple monitor script for use during development of a node.js app, It will watch the files in the directory in which nodemon was started, and if any files change, nodemon will automatically restart your node application |
| Nodemailer | This module enables e-mail sending from a Node.js applications |
| Optimist | is a node.js library for option parsing with an argv hash |
| Phantomjs | An NPM installer for PhantomJS, headless webkit with JS API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG |
| Passport | A simple, unobtrusive authentication middleware for Node.js. Passport uses the strategies to authenticate requests. Strategies can range from verifying username and password credentials or authentication using OAuth or OpenID |
| Q | Q is a library for promises. A promise is an object that represents the return value or the thrown exception that the function may eventually provide |
| Request | Request is Simplified HTTP request client make it possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default |
| Socket.io | Its a node.js realtime framework server |
| Sails | Sails is a API-driven framework for building realtime apps, using MVC conventions (based on Express and Socket.io) |
| Through | It enables simplified stream construction. It is easy way to create a stream that is both readable and writable |
| Underscore | Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides support for the usual functional suspects (each, map, reduce, filter...) without extending any core JavaScript objects |
| Validator | A nodejs module for a library of string validators and sanitizers |
| Winston | A multi-transport async logging library for Node.js |
| Ws | A simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested websocket client, server and console for node.js |
| Xml2js | A Simple XML to JavaScript object converter |
| Yo | A CLI tool for running Yeoman generators |
| Zmq | Bindings for node.js and io.js to ZeroMQ. It is a high-performance asynchronous messaging library, aimed at use in distributed or concurrent applications |
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