What are some useful npm packages I might not know about?

Over the years I have been trying to collect such modules which are not in the like light but very useful, check them out -> nmotw.in

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My company recently started using ramda. I don't know much about Haskell, but Ramda basically seems to bring all the functions from Haskell over, and encourages a functional approach to programming. It took me 2 days to really wrap my head around it, but I'm glad I did; it is sooooo cool. It'll beat you down the first few days you use it if you've never programmed functionally, and unfortunately there's not as many examples to follow when you Google stuff for it, but the docs are great and the community looks very helpful.

After I got the hang of it... I'm having so much fun.

If you face "forgot password" problem too often and do not trust online password managers. Use this:

Chaabi: A dead simple CLI tool to encrypt text "locally"

producthunt.com/posts/chaabi
npmjs.com/package/chaabi

P.S.: I am the creator of the package

This might not be the best "back to the JavaScript" package, but it might be interesting for people working with eslint

lint-filter

The best scenario to use this is when you have a large project and you decide to introduce new ESLint rule and you only want to apply it on the new code, not change everything at once.

webpack. babel (you don't just use one babel package, there are many in tandem).

Emojic! Cause you know...emoji is life.

I haven't tried it but npx sounds cool! It can run your npm package binaries on the command-line!
Here are some good resources for npx. :smile:

eslint - For your all your JavaScript linting needs
prettier - Code Formatter to enforce coding style consitency in your project
redux - If you're using react
redux-saga - for handling your async operations in redux

yarn > npm because npm 5 has been buggy for me & a lot of other people as well. Yarn never gives me any issues & it's so much faster. :-)

• supertest for writing api tests.
• power-assert which a major improvement over the builtin assert but without the complexity of a library like chai.
• lerna for creating monorepo projects.

+1 for Prettier
Chart.js for simple HTML5 charts when D3 seems like overkill

Also I recently stumbled on javascripting.com - fun resource for geeking out on new libs, packages and tools