Top 23 JavaScript Backend Projects

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1. awesome-cheatsheets

   1 33 45,992 2.6 JavaScript

   👩‍💻👨‍💻 Awesome cheatsheets for popular programming languages, frameworks and development tools. They include everything you should know in one single file.

   

2. SaaSHub

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   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. parse-server

   2 43 21,395 9.7 JavaScript

   Parse Server for Node.js / Express

   

   Project mention: AI Coding: Building a 1-Hour App Clone Is Easy. Shipping It Is the Work | dev.to | 2026-03-18

   If you’re coming from the Parse ecosystem, it may help to know that Parse itself is a long-running open source backend framework. You can start from the official Parse Platform site, or go deeper with the community’s Parse Server repository. Our own developer docs are organized around that reality. If you want implementation-level guides, start with our SashiDo Documentation.

4. web-skills

   3 3 7,507 0.0 JavaScript

   A visual overview of useful skills to learn as a web developer

   

5. Cockpit

   4 19 5,401 0.0 JavaScript

   Add content management functionality to any site - plug & play / headless / api-first CMS (by agentejo)

   

6. hoodie

   5 1 4,469 0.0 JavaScript

   :dog: The Offline First JavaScript Backend (by hoodiehq)

   

7. nodejs-testing-best-practices

   6 15 4,363 7.7 JavaScript

   Beyond the basics of Node.js testing. Including a super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app (April 2025)

   

8. blaze

   7 3 2,455 0.0 JavaScript

   ⚡ File sharing progressive web app built using WebTorrent and WebSockets (by blenderskool)

   

9. learn-nodejs-hard-way

   8 3 1,795 8.5 JavaScript

   Learn NodeJS and master the art of server-side programming by creating a backend framework with 0 dependencies.

   

10. kuzzle

    9 2 1,642 8.9 JavaScript

    Open-source Back-end, self-hostable & ready to use - Real-time, storage, advanced search - Web, Apps, Mobile, IoT -

    

11. axios-module

    10 6 1,187 0.0 JavaScript

    Secure and easy axios integration for Nuxt 2

    

12. Nullstack

    11 1 783 3.7 JavaScript

    Feature-Driven Full Stack JavaScript Components

    

13. pompelmi

    12 13 645 9.0 JavaScript

    ClamAV antivirus scanning for Node.js — scan file uploads with a single function call. Zero dependencies. Typed Symbol verdicts. Local or Docker/clamd.

    

    Project mention: Why Every AI+Security Tool I Tried Was Lying to Me (And What I Built Instead) | dev.to | 2026-05-18

    I'm Tommaso Bertocchi, a developer and open source creator. I also maintain Pompelmi, a file upload security scanner for Node.js with 600+ GitHub stars.

14. everything-chatgpt

    13 6 595 7.4 JavaScript

    🔍 Explore what happens under the hood with the ChatGPT web app, its backend API calls and more. And some speculation, of course.

    

15. Stackoverflow-Clone-Frontend

    14 13 566 0.0 JavaScript

    Clone project of a famous Q/A website for developers built using MySQL, Express, React, Node, Sequelize :globe_with_meridians:

    

16. Ultimate-NodeJs-Resources

    15 3 553 8.4 JavaScript

    All resources related to Node Js at one place

    

17. i18next-http-backend

    16 7 524 7.7 JavaScript

    i18next-http-backend is a backend layer for i18next using in Node.js, in the browser and for Deno.

    

18. mojo.js

    17 15 509 6.5 JavaScript

    :unicorn: The Mojolicious real-time web framework for Node.js

    

19. Quantum

    18 6 471 9.7 JavaScript

    🚀 Hackable & Self-hosted Open-Source alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify, etc. All your applications, just in one place. Develop and deploy with your favorite tools, and enjoy continuous deployment with GitHub. (by rodyherrera)

    

20. fresh

    19 1 319 7.5 JavaScript

    A swiss army knife to create modern turbo stacks for web artisans (by mislam)

    

21. gindex-v4

    20 1 253 0.0 JavaScript

    A Vue Js Based G Index with Improved Dark Mode, Search and Video Player

    

22. stack-underflow-mern-gql

    21 7 227 0.0 JavaScript

    Feature-rich ‘stack overflow’ (QnA site) clone. Made using MERN + GraphQL stack.

    

23. reddish-mern

    22 6 192 4.1 JavaScript

    Simplified ‘reddit’ (popular social-media site) clone. Made using MERN stack.

    

24. LawinServer

    23 1 168 7.6 JavaScript

    LawinServerV1 is a local single-user Fortnite backend (server emulator) which supports both Battle Royale and Save the World.

    

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