I'm getting back into that JavaScript life and I'd love some suggestions about some libs I might want to check out. If you're an author of something, please feel free to pitch me. 😄
I'm getting back into that JavaScript life and I'd love some suggestions about some libs I might want to check out. If you're an author of something, please feel free to pitch me. 😄
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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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Just wanted to say that that is a pretty cool list you're maintaining!
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.
Yeah, I've used ramda and I like it.
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:
npx is now ship with the latest version of npm medium.com/@maybekatz/introducing-...
NPX makes me happy. NPX + terminal aliases = Very rare need to globally install a package.
assertbut without the complexity of a library like chai.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>npmbecause 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. :-)I heard the msngr.js package is an awesome messaging library that helps with decoupling code. Some amazing person, who I don't know at all what so ever, put it together.
github.com/KrisSiegel/msngr.js
😄
+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
I've been using husky lately. Make things like pre-commit and pre-push pretty easy. Quite nice to automate those things.
Package here
This looks interesting, but I'm not 100% sure I follow follow what it does based on the readme. Can you explain this like I'm five?
It runs commands of your choice at specific times. For example, if you wanted to run your linter right before your commit and your test suite right before you push, you would add in your package.json something like this:
If your linter fails, your commit fails. If your test suite fails, your push fails ( in this example ). You can use any git hooks you wish.
And it can run other commands, not just npm environment-related ones?
That's a good question. I actually never tried. I suppose whatever you can run inside package.json can be used with husky. Here is a list of hooks supported if you are interested by that
Yeah it does, just did a quick test:
Not going to keep rails test before each commit obviously but we now know it works :D
Very cool! Thank you!
Husky does really facilitate creating git hooks. I prefer linting the code before committing, so for those who want to lint on precommit git hook digitalfortress.tech/tricks/lint-o...
You can run anything.
lint-stagedcompliments this package very well. Here's an example, github.com/nickytonline/generator-...Only one gotcha. If you've already installed the husky package at least once, you will need to run
yarn --forceornpm install --no-cache. For some reason the post-install script of husky does not run, when the package is pulled from yarn's or npm's cache.pnpm. It's like npm but on steroids.
The author of this handy project is on dev.to as well: @zkochan
Thanks for mentioning!
If you are going to try building a command line application with node here are some packages to consider:
download Downloading any file from its link, useful if are fetching data and going to download images or something
commander A framework for cli apps, making options and such
chalk A library that lets you output colored text on the terminal
inquirer Lets you ask the user questions, useful for creating interactive applications
shelljs Run any terminal command from your javascript file
Also if you are starting new projects, you might want to check my project, Initior. It will make initializing your new projects really fast and convenient <3
pm2 for running your Node applications (or anything else) in production. I used to use forever, but pm2 actually persists across reboots, assuming you set it up to start.
I'm still learning with it, but I like what I've learned so far!
PM2 is super awesome, especially the integration with keymetrics.io
My discoveries in the last months:
You can also get rid of task runners by using only webpack along with its loaders and plugins. With webpack 2 and beyond, the webpack team's goal has been to do just that. Be the alternative to task runners like Gulp and Grunt. Especially when working with libraries like React for example.
I wrote this simple npm package called "popular-movie-quotes". A simple NPM package to get popular movie quotes with zero dependencies. Maybe this can help you with a movie-themed side project.
npmjs.com/package/popular-movie-qu...
patch-packageis really helpful if you need to apply a hotfix to a package but don't have time to wait until it's merged upstream (or don't want the hassle of using git repo URLs inpackage.jsonto point to your fork)Looks nice
There are a few Node Security tools that might come in handy.
The first is our lesser known eslint security rules - Useful for finding some security issues in code. Better for spot checks than running all the time like a normal linter due to false positives for many of the rules.
Second is nsp which you can use to check for known vulnerabilities in dependencies. Shameless plug if you want continuous monitoring vs spot checking with a cli tool, sign up at nodesecurity.io (free for open source)
Hey Adam!
I was wondering if you can also help me with this: ESLint has hundreds (maybe even thousands) of plugins and I wanted to understand for security specifically, can you recommend any (besides the ones in OWASP Top 10, or these below:
What other plugins are there for security? Which are the best/most popular? Thank you so much!
I haven't tried these yet, but Jason Miller's packages for moving things to web workers look very interesting.
npm check updates is great for keeping your dependencies updated.
xo Zero (or low) config eslint wrapper. Enforces good code style instantly.
ava IMHO the best test runner. Runs tests in parallel.
I was using postman for api documentation for a bit and couldn't find any nice free way to turn its json documentation to nice website api documentation. So i created docmaster. It parses json file from postman export and uses apidoc to turn it into nice web api documentation.
Result-js and ROption, which introduce our favorite Rust types to JS :D
A lot of the more interesting node packages I use are apparently cli based. Here are a few I find to be pretty interesting:
Here's my completely biased list (yes, I wrote them all):
Background Daemons/Services:
porthog identifies which application is using a specified port, providing the process name and PID. Works for Windows, OSX, and most flavors of Unix that support the lsof operation.
shortbus is basically an awesome task runner capable of executing processing queues, running them sequentially or simultaneously, and modifying the queue dynamically. Kinda like promises, but more dynamic.
localenvironment is a simple way to define lots of environment variables using an env.json file.
musthave provides a simple and standard way of checking for object attributes. The inspiration for this project was checking for the existence of environment variables.
And of course, nvm for Windows if you happen to be a Windows user. (I know, not really a module).
A zeronode - its a minimal block for creating microservices. It's manages reconnecting, message queueing, has request/reply and tick (fire and forget) and lots of other goodness in the box
npmjs.com/package/zeronode
plus there are more NPM libs I wrote at glebbahmutov.com/
npmjs.com/package/npm-watch is a nice little tool I maintain, useful if you invest in scripts in your package.json
there are some bugs, but they are also being worked on
npmjs.com/package/json-server
Creates a pretty full featured REST API from a JSON file of data. Great for spinning up a fake backend quickly.
Not my package. ;)
a distributed file sharing and web hosting method
datproject.org/
Much better than current p2p technology.
its available as npm package
npmjs.com/package/dat
If you are writing a Node.js backend that works with a SQL database, check out x2node collection of modules (see x2node.com).
Please try pakkajs, It is a Simple and Small DOM library that I wrote.
For naming servers, projects or things, npmjs.com/package/nsaname
(disclaimer - I built it, and no, it's not really useful)
I'm sure most people are familiar with it at this point, but Tiny Care Terminal still makes me happy. github.com/notwaldorf/tiny-care-te...
npmjs.com/package/gitignorer
did you try nixar (askucher.github.io/nixarweb/#/)? :)
pm2 is great, indeed. do you use pmx with pm2?
extendify is a helpful tool to extend jsons in a deep way. simple and powerful.