10 Awesome NPM packages : Every JavaScript developer must know.
What is NPM ?
npm is a package manager for the JavaScript programming language maintained by npm, Inc. npm is the default package manager for the JavaScript runtime environment Node.js.
- AYSNC
async is a utility module which provides straightforward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript.
2. PM2
PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in loader balance. It allows you to keep applications alive forever, to reload them without downtime and to facilitate common system admin tasks.
3.UglifyJS2
UglifyJS2 automatically shortens and minifies your JavaScript files. For High performance of a web page, it is essential to save all possible space and load-times no matter how small they are.
4. Loadtest
Used to send multiple requests to HTTP or websockets URL to determine how your application responds to high concurrent request.
5. Morgan
Used to store information about requests, when handling many request there are a lot of successful and failing requests, the library can give you a good insight into those requests and you can easily track down the source of error when did it happen and who caused it.
6.Moment
A package to work with dates. It has many functions to format date in many forms.Supports addition and subtraction of dates.
7.Helmet
A npm package to add security headers.
8. Winston
A npm package to log information, warning or error into multiple transports such as console, database or file.
9. Joi
Used to validate that pass-through request it supports many data types like string, number object array. You can define different rules on what kind of data your application accepts.
10. node-localstorage.
A server-side clone of local storage is used to store simple data.
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