redislock (GitHub: danielstjules/redislock, License: MIT) by Daniel St. Jules is a module for distributed locking powered by Redis. This utility is very helpful when you are building a distributed application, or even a basic CPU…
OS Monitor
os-monitor (GitHub: lfortin/node-os-monitor, License: MIT) by Laurent Fortin is a very handy utility module to help you monitor basic stats of the server app is running on. It functions as both event emitter and a…
Continuous Integration In The Cloud Comparing Travis Circle And Codeship
Continuous Integration (CI) is an essential part to any modern development process. Gone are the days of monolithic releases with massive changes, today it’s all about releasing fast and often….
stepup
stepup (GitHub: CrabDude/stepup, License: MIT) by Adam Crabtree is a simple control-flow library that makes parallel execution, serial execution, and error handling painless. This module originated as step by Tim Caswell and was pretty popular. I liked the stepup fork for…
nedb
NeDB (GitHub: louischatriot/nedb, License: MIT) by Louis Chatriot is an embedded persistent database with no dependencies. It implements a subset of the most used MongoDB operations and is currently considered stable. You can use NeDB as an…
Sum-up
sum-up (GitHub: shinnn/sum-up, License: MIT) by Shinnosuke Watanabe is a perfect example of why Node.js ecosystem is amazing. This module is microscopic in size at just 40 lines of code but if you are writing…
Hashring
hashring (GitHub: 3rd-Eden/node-hashring, License: MIT) by Arnout Kazemier is a JavaScript implementation of the Consistent Hashing algorythm. If you don’t know exactly what that is and not into reading dry Wikipedia articles, watch this 3 minute video for a…
hosted-git-info
hosted-git-info (GitHub: npm/hosted-git-info, License: ISC) by Rebecca Turner of the NPM Inc is another fantastic ulitify module for parsing, breaking down and reusing GitHub, BitBucket and GitLab project URLs. It has a simple API and comes with…
phantomas
phantomas (GitHub: macbre/phantomas, License: MIT) by Maciej Brencz is an NPM installed utility for collecting various statistics of web pages ranging from load times, number of request, caching strategies to inline styles and duplicate CSS…
sequest
sequest (GitHub: mikeal/sequest, License: MIT) by Mikeal Rogers is a simplified interface to the ssh2 (GitHub: mscdex/ssh2, License: MIT) that was featured earlier. It provides a simplified approach on top of the stream based interface. For example, each command…