Top NPM Packages for NodeJS

There are over 1.4 Million NPM Packages on NPM now and it’s impossible to learn about each and every package in your entire life.

It becomes very difficult to find the right and most useful package to learn from them.

So, In this blog, you will get an idea and direction to learn the right Packages to learn as per your interest and branch.

Table Of Contents

1. Overall top 10 Most Popular NPM Packages/Libraries
2. Most Popular Packages for :

• Front-end
• Backend
• CLI
• Documentation
• CSS
• Testing
• IoT
• Coverage
• Mobile
• Frameworks
• Robotics
• Math

3.Conclusion

Top 10 Most Popular NPM package

1. lodash
2. react
3. chalk
4. request
5. commander
6. express
7. moment
8. tslib
9. react-dom
10. axios

Now let’s discuss the packages as per their uses,

Front-end

1. Bootstrap
2. Vue-JS
3. CropperJS
4. Yo
5. liver-server
6. CoreUI
7. Local Web Server
8. ViewerJS
9. CoreUI-Pro
10. MissionLog

Backend

1. strapi
2. local-web-server
3. missionlog
4. netlify-cms-backend-git-gateway
5. netlify-cms-backend-gitlab
6. netlify-cms-backend-test
7. @modular/smcc-core
8. mock-rest-server
9. playfab-sdk
10. baqend

CLI

1. chalk
2. yargs
3. inquirer
4. commander
5. meow
6. pm2
7. ora
8. update-notifier
9. webpack-cli
10. argparse

Documentation

1. jsdoc
2. gray-matter
3. grunt-jsdoc
4. swagger-ui-express
5. jsdoc-to-markdown
6. documentation
7. typedoc
8. covgen
9. @compodoc/compodoc
10. mongoose-to-swagger

CSS

1. node-sass
2. autoprefixer
3. less
4. css-loader
5. postcss
6. classnames
7. stylelint
8. optimize-css-assets-webpack-plugin
9. postcss-loader
10. bootstrap
11. cssstyle
12. stylus

Testing

1. mocha
2. supertest
3. karma
4. jest
5. chai
6. @testing-library/react
7. axe-core
8. protractor
9. jest-cli
10. @testing-library/dom

IoT

1. serverless
2. serialport
3. pigpio
4. aws-iot-device-sdk
5. coap
6. aedes
7. onoff
8. total.js
9. spi-device
10. node-red

Coverage

1. jest
2. jest-cli
3. karma-coverage
4. nyc
5. codecov
6. istanbul-lib-instrument
7. istanbul-lib-coverage
8. coveralls
9. v8-to-istanbul
10. karma-typescript

Mobile

1. libphonenumber-js
2. ionicons
3. is-mobile
4. loopback
5. intl-tel-input
6. swiper
7. react-native-vector-icons
8. react-responsive
9. @ionic/core
10. react-native-keychain

Frameworks

1. socket.io
2. express
3. socket.io-client
4. bootstrap
5. koa
6. angular
7. fastify
8. antd
9. loopback
10. foundation-sites

Robotics

1. serialport
2. raspi-board
3. vexdb
4. johnny-five
5. rclnodejs
6. cylon
7. raspi-peripheral
8. ros-blessed
9. hedgehog-client
10. cylon-i2c-bmp280

Math

1. simple-statistics
2. mathjs
3. math-expression-evaluator
4. is-number
5. big-integer
6. node-int64
7. long
8. nerdamer
9. expression-eval
10. hull.js
11. date-arithmetic

Conclusion

What is the best depends on “What you want to make”.