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Top 23 JavaScript Server Projects
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Okay another update: https://www.npmjs.com/package/express
Express is also down. Can anyone explain what's going on? Are people really moving to Astro, Bun, Svelte? Or NPM is behaving weirdly?
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Project mention: Need help setting up a remote depository using GitHub and VCS | /r/webdev | 2023-05-03
Do you run a Webserver during development, even if it is a simple dev-server like https://www.npmjs.com/package/http-server ?
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Amplication
Amplication: open-source Node.js backend code generator. An open-source platform that helps developers build backends without spending time on boilerplate & repetitive coding. Including production-ready GraphQL & REST APIs, DB schema, DTOs, filtering, pagination, RBAC, & more.
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Restify & Fastify Hapi
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webpack-dev-server
Serves a webpack app. Updates the browser on changes. Documentation https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/.
Project mention: Possible bug when running webpack-dev-server in npm child project | /r/webpack | 2023-06-02So I spent couple hours to sort the bug report out properly :) https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/issues/4890
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SurveyJS
A Non-Cloud Alternative to Google Forms that has it all.. SurveyJS JavaScript libraries allow you to easily set up a robust form management system fully integrated into your IT infrastructure where users can create and edit multiple dynamic JSON-based forms in a no-code form builder. Learn more now.
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Project mention: What tools do you use for developing logins, registrations and my account -pages | /r/AskProgramming | 2023-05-03
This library forms the basis of a number of OIDC providers we, err, provide to our users.
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Do you need it to actually send, or just receive for testing? Because if it's testing you need then you should look into paper cut SMTP. https://github.com/ChangemakerStudios/Papercut-SMTP
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form-data
A module to create readable `"multipart/form-data"` streams. Can be used to submit forms and file uploads to other web applications.
The next request turned out to be a little more difficult to implement because it had to send a report.html file inside it, which first needed to be converted using the encoding type multipart form-data. Therefore to create readable "multipart/form-data" streams, I needed to use the Form-Data library. In order to install it locally, used the following command:
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It works great! By default it leverages public WebTorrent trackers to connect users, but you can also host your own with https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-tracker.
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start-server-and-test
Starts server, waits for URL, then runs test command; when the tests end, shuts down server
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Project mention: is there any update on when auto start will get added to 1.19? | /r/exaroton | 2023-01-07
This is the library exaroton uses: https://github.com/PrismarineJS/node-minecraft-protocol
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learn-nodejs-hard-way
Learn and master NodeJS and backend development by creating a backend framework with 0 dependencies.
My previous repository Node.js - The hard way received a lot of good feedback from Js/Node developers. However, I noticed that many people were not well versed with Javascript in the first place.
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hyper-express
High performance Node.js webserver with a simple-to-use API powered by uWebsockets.js under the hood.
Project mention: HyperExpress: High Performance Node.js Webserver | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-06-25 -
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I didn't know about the koop project. I've found that implementation https://github.com/koopjs/koop/tree/master/packages/featureserver but it's only a mock service right ?
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Appwrite
Appwrite - The open-source backend cloud platform. The open-source backend cloud platform for developing Web, Mobile, and Flutter applications. You can set up your backend faster with real-time APIs for authentication, databases, file storage, cloud functions, and much more!
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2023-09-21.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Server projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Express | 61,908 |
| 2 | http-server | 12,887 |
| 3 | Restify | 10,657 |
| 4 | Dash | 10,203 |
| 5 | webpack-dev-server | 7,692 |
| 6 | Grant | 3,926 |
| 7 | react-server | 3,906 |
| 8 | node-oidc-provider | 2,806 |
| 9 | Papercut | 2,632 |
| 10 | form-data | 2,219 |
| 11 | bittorrent-tracker | 1,601 |
| 12 | start-server-and-test | 1,459 |
| 13 | node-minecraft-protocol | 1,129 |
| 14 | appserver.io | 958 |
| 15 | servor | 922 |
| 16 | learn-nodejs-hard-way | 918 |
| 17 | Cowyo | 898 |
| 18 | dyson | 832 |
| 19 | hyper-express | 829 |
| 20 | nve | 657 |
| 21 | koop | 596 |
| 22 | pogo | 490 |
| 23 | flying-squid | 489 |
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