Most useful NodeJS library for ReactJS

Over recent years Node.js has become more and more popular. It is now often used for developing the server side of web applications, or in general during the development process.

Node js is an open source platform for creating applications that use JavaScript on server side as well as on the client side. Its runtime environment interprets JavaScript using Google's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js has an event-driven architecture capable of asynchronous I/O that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world. JavaScripts usage amongst the developer community is growing at a very rapid pace. It is the most popular language in a recent survey conducted by Stack Overflow.

In this post, we have listed the popular Node JS libraries that are useful and a must for your next development projects.

Let’s see them -

jQuery

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library.

Lodash

The lodash library exported as a node module. Lodash is a modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance, & extras.

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.

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, websites, hybrids, or public HTTP APIs.

Moment

This is a lightweight JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.

Backbone

Backbone.js gives structure to web applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing API over a RESTful JSON interface.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ws

A simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested WebSocket client, server and console for node.js

Optimist

It is a node.js library for option parsing with an argv hash.

Grunt

It 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.

 

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