appendix_1 - Node.js Manual & Documentation

## 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.