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Appendix 1 - Third Party Modules

There are many third party modules for Node. At the time of writing, August 2010, the master repository of modules is http://github.com/ry/node/wiki/modules[the wiki page].

This appendix is intended as a SMALL guide to new-comers to help them quickly find what are considered to be quality modules. It is not intended to be a complete list. There may be better more complete modules found elsewhere.

• Module Installer: npm

• HTTP Middleware: Connect

• Web Framework: Express

• Web Sockets: Socket.IO

• HTML Parsing: HTML5

• mDNS/Zeroconf/Bonjour

• RabbitMQ, AMQP

• mysql

• Serialization: msgpack

• Scraping: Apricot

• Debugger: ndb is a CLI debugger inspector is a web based tool.

• pcap binding

• ncurses

• Testing/TDD/BDD: vows, expresso, mjsunit.runner

Patches to this list are welcome.