Awesome Node

Frameworks

• Express - easy to start with. Express generator will create a scaffolding of your app.
• Feathersjs - open source REST and realtime API layer

ORM

• Sequelize - introduces models and migrations but takes time to learn and understand.

Express

• Error handling
• helmet - secure Express apps

Express + Sequelize

• Beginner's guide - outdated (2015), but has several valuable insights.
• Getting started - nice tutorial in which you bundle-up everything, step by step (plus source code).
• Model configuration - this can be tricky and frustrating.

Sockets

• socket.io

Packages

• dotenv - .env file support
• jsonwebtoken - JWT authorization toolset
• express-validator - input validation
• node-uuid - UUID generation
• bcrypt - bcrypt hasher implementation, useful for password hashing
• crypto-js - hash generation (e.g. SHA256, AES)
• nodemailer - easy-to-use mailing package
• cors - adds CORS support to Express
• ejs - simple template system
• slug - generate slugs from strings
• multer - a node.js middleware for handling multipart/form-data, which is primarily used for uploading files

Documentation

• apidoc - Inline Documentation for RESTful web APIs - apiDoc creates a documentation from API annotations in your source code

Development

• nodemon - live-reload for node.js

Resources

• Eric Elliott - he wrote a lot of valuable articles on medium.com (mainly regarding JS, but still very, very useful)
• 2FA - an article by David Walsh about two-factor authentication