Awesome Node ESM

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A curated list of Node.js modules with native ESM support and resources about ES Modules in Node.js.

Contents

- Articles (#articles)
- Tools (#tools)
- Packages (#packages)
  - Web frameworks (#web-frameworks)
  - HTTP (#http)
  - WebSocket (#websocket)
  - Template engines (#template-engines)
  - SSR (#ssr)
  - Databases (#databases)
  - Logging (#logging)
  - Testing (#testing)
  - CLI (#cli)
  - Date (#date)
  - File system (#file-system)
  - Utility (#utility) (value manipulations)
  - Random (#random)
  - Parsing (#parsing)
  - Compression (#compression)
  - Performance (#performance)
  - AST (#ast)
  - Functional programming (#functional-programming)
  - Math (#math)
  - Ethereum (#ethereum)
  - Other (#other)

Articles

- ECMAScript Modules Node.js docs (https://nodejs.org/api/esm.html)
- How to Use ESM on the Web and Node.js (https://byteofdev.com/posts/how-to-use-esm/)
- Using ES modules natively in Node.js (https://2ality.com/2017/09/native-esm-node.html)
- ES Modules in Node today (https://blog.logrocket.com/es-modules-in-node-today)
- Super Simple Start to ESModules in Node.js (https://kentcdodds.com/blog/super-simple-start-to-es-modules-in-node-js/)

Tools

- esbuild (https://github.com/evanw/esbuild) - an extremely fast JavaScript bundler and minifier.
- tsup (https://github.com/egoist/tsup) - bundle your TypeScript library with no config, powered by esbuild.
- rollup (https://github.com/rollup/rollup) - next-generation ES Module bundler.
- dual-publish (https://github.com/ai/dual-publish) - publish JS project as dual ES modules and CommonJS package to npm
- cjstoesm (https://github.com/wessberg/cjstoesm) - tool that can transform CommonJS to ESM
- esbuild-node-loader (https://github.com/antfu/esbuild-node-loader) - transpile TypeScript to ESM with Node.js loader.
- tsm (https://github.com/lukeed/tsm) - TypeScript Module Loader

Packages

Web frameworks

- tinyhttp (https://github.com/talentlessguy/tinyhttp) - tiny web framework as a replacement of Express.
- polka (https://github.com/lukeed/polka) (alpha only) - micro web server so fast, it'll make you dance!
- koa (https://github.com/koajs/koa) - expressive middleware for node.js using ES2017 async functions

HTTP

HTTP Clients

- node-fetch (https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch) - light-weight module that brings window.fetch to Node.js
- httpie (https://github.com/lukeed/httpie) - a Node.js HTTP client as easy as pie!

API Clients

- kitsu (https://github.com/wopian/kitsu) - simple, lightweight & framework agnostic JSON:API client
- twitter-lite (https://github.com/draftbit/twitter-lite) - tiny, full-featured, flexible client / server library for the Twitter API 

WebSocket

- sockette (https://github.com/lukeed/sockette) - tiny wrapper around WebSocket that will automatically reconnect if the connection is lost!

Middleware

- milliparsec (https://github.com/talentlessguy/milliparsec) - tiniest Node.js body parser ever
- sirv (https://github.com/lukeed/sirv) - an optimized middleware & CLI application for serving static files~! 
- tinyws (https://github.com/talentlessguy/tinyws) - tiny WebSocket middleware for Node.js
- malibu (https://github.com/tinyhttp/malibu) - framework-agnostic CSRF middleware for modern Node.js 
- lru-send (https://github.com/tinyhttp/lru-send) - LRU-based caching middleware for Node.js

Template engines

- eta (https://github.com/eta-dev/eta) - embedded JS template engine for Node, Deno, and the browser
- tempura (https://github.com/lukeed/tempura) - A light, crispy, and delicious template engine

SSR

- preact-render-to-string (https://github.com/preactjs/preact-render-to-string) - universal rendering for Preact: render JSX and Preact components to HTML.
- hyperapp-render (https://github.com/kriasoft/hyperapp-render) - render Hyperapp to an HTML string with SSR and Node.js streaming support.
- hypermdx (https://github.com/talentlessguy/hypermdx) - Markdown enhanced with Hyperapp 
- streamdown (https://github.com/talentlessguy/streamdown) - stream markdown to HTML 

Databases

- rxdb (https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb) - a realtime Database for JavaScript Applications.

Logging

- logtown (https://github.com/logtown/logtown) - simple Logging Facade for JavaScript.
- oddlog (https://gitlab.com/frissdiegurke/oddlog) - high-performance payload focused logging library for node.js.
- diary (https://github.com/maraisr/diary) - zero-dependency, fast logging library for both Node and Browser.
- roarr (https://github.com/gajus/roarr) - JSON logger for Node.js and browser.

Testing

- uvu (https://github.com/lukeed/uvu) - an extremely fast and lightweight test runner for Node.js and the browser.
- oletus (https://github.com/bearror/oletus) - minimal ECMAScript Module test runner
- hanbi (https://github.com/43081j/hanbi) - a small javascript library for stubbing and spying on methods/functions. 
- wirepig (https://github.com/griffinmyers/wirepig) - mock HTTP and TCP dependencies with real sockets.

CLI

Argument parsing

- yargs (https://github.com/yargs/yargs) - Command-line parser that automatically generates an elegant user-interface.

Colors

- colorette (https://github.com/jorgebucaran/colorette) - color your terminal using pure idiomatic JavaScript.
- kleur (https://github.com/lukeed/kleur) - the fastest Node.js library for formatting terminal text with ANSI colors~!

Date

- dayjs (https://github.com/iamkun/dayjs) - 2KB immutable date library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API
- tinydate (https://github.com/lukeed/tinydate) - a tiny (349B) reusable date formatter. 
- tempe (https://github.com/masbagal/tempe) - Featherlight (< 2kB) helper for Javascript date formatting
- light-date (https://github.com/xxczaki/light-date) - blazing fast & lightweight (157 bytes) date formatting for Node.js and the browser. 

File system

- istextorbinary (https://github.com/bevry/istextorbinary) - Check if a file is text or binary.
- @tinyhttp/dotenv (https://github.com/talentlessguy/tinyhttp/tree/master/packages/dotenv) - A rewrite of dotenv (https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv) module.

Utility

- dequal (https://github.com/lukeed/dequal) - tiny (304B to 489B) utility to check for deep equality
- klona (https://github.com/lukeed/klona) - tiny (240B to 507B) and fast utility to "deep clone" Objects, Arrays, Dates, RegExps, and more!
- dlv (https://github.com/developit/dlv) - Safe deep property access in 120 bytes. x = dlv(obj, 'a.b.x')


Random

- uuid (https://github.com/lukeed/uuid) - tiny (230B), fast, and cryptographically secure UUID (V4) generator for Node and the browser
- nanoid (https://github.com/ai/nanoid) - Tiny, secure, URL-friendly, unique string ID generator.

Parsing

- snarkdown (https://github.com/developit/snarkdown) - a snarky 1kb Markdown parser written in JavaScript

Compression

- anzip (https://github.com/mikbry/anzip) - simple async unzip library for Node.js

Performance

- piscina (https://github.com/piscinajs/piscina) - a fast, efficient Node.js Worker Thread Pool implementation
- nanodelay (https://github.com/ai/nanodelay) - a tiny (25 bytes) Promise wrapper around setTimeout 

AST

- acorn (https://github.com/acornjs/acorn) - a small, fast, JavaScript-based JavaScript parser

Functional programming

- immutable (https://github.com/facebook/immutable-js) - Immutable data collections.
- ramda (https://github.com/Ramda/ramda) - practical functional Javascript.
- smoldash (https://github.com/marvinhagemeister/smoldash) - A tiny lodash alternative built for the modern web
- deepdash (https://github.com/YuriGor/deepdash) - tree traversal library written in Underscore/Lodash fashion 

Math

- mathjs (https://github.com/josdejong/mathjs) - An extensive math library.

Ethereum

- get-ens (https://github.com/talentlessguy/get-ens) - Get text records of an ENS address
- send-tx (https://github.com/talentlessguy/send-tx) - Sign & send Ethereum transactions

Other

- turf (https://github.com/Turfjs/turf) - a modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript 
- cashify (https://github.com/xxczaki/cashify) - lightweight currency conversion library, successor of money.js
- astro (https://github.com/withastro/astro) - build faster websites with the island architecture 
- transliterate (https://github.com/sindresorhus/transliterate) - convert Unicode characters to Latin characters using transliteration
- emittery (https://github.com/sindresorhus/emittery) - simple and modern async event emitter.

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