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Top 16 Shell Node Projects
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Your shell looks up npm in your PATH and finds it — often inside whatever directory nvm installed Node into, or at a system path like /usr/local/bin/npm. It hands control to the npm CLI, which is itself just a Node.js script.
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ONLYOFFICE
ONLYOFFICE Docs is a free collaborative online office suite comprising viewers and editors for texts, spreadsheets and presentations, forms and PDF, fully compatible with Office Open XML formats: .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and enabling collaborative editing in real time.
Project mention: OnlyOffice kills Nextcloud partnership for forking its project without approval | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-01OnlyOffice didn't distribute under a pure AGPLv3 license. They made modifications to it.
On line 655 here: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DocumentServer/blob/master/LIC...
> Pursuant to Section 7(b) of the License you must retain the original Product logo when distributing the program. Pursuant to Section 7(e) we decline to grant you any rights under trademark law for use of our trademarks.
And on line 17 here: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors/blob/master/LIC...
> Pursuant to Section 7 § 3(b) of the GNU AGPL you must retain the original ONLYOFFICE logo in the upper left corner of the user interface when distributing the software.
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For managing versions of development tools like Ruby and Node.js, I had gone through *env tools like rbenv and nodenv, then switched to asdf in 2019. For environment variable management, I had been using direnv since even earlier—2014.
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Another one is how much time it takes to maintain vs how much interest it has. This is different than burnout.
I created and maintain example Docker Compose starter projects for Flask[0], Rails[1], Django[2] and Node[3]. I've had these going for 6-7 years and I maintain them at least once a week to keep everything up to date.
I used to also support Phoenix but I stopped after ~5 years because it was the least popular project but also took up more time to upgrade than all of the other example projects combined because Live View has changed in drastic ways so many times.
Plus it became no longer enjoyable to work on it since I stopped using Phoenix in my day to day as well. That combined with it being the least popular example app between the 5 projects.
I put together a 6 month plan to archive the repo in https://github.com/nickjj/docker-phoenix-example/issues/16, received zero feedback and then archived it at the start of 2026.
[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-flask-example
[1]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-rails-example
[2]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-django-example
[3]: https://github.com/nickjj/docker-node-example
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simple-node-js-react-npm-app
For an introductory tutorial on how to use Jenkins to build a simple Node.js and React application with npm.
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nano-node-docker
Setup a fully automated NANO cryptocurrency node as part of an dockerized stack with fast-syncing and easy SSL support.
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nx-library-starter
A starter project that is set up using NX Monorepo to create new Typescript libraries for the web
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While pnpm is saving disk space it is very hard to see the actual size of node_modules on mac. Because pnpm uses APFS Reflinks which reports the size of referenced files instead of actual nearly 0KB size of links. While cleaning my packages myself, I made a tiny cli tool, which shows which of your node/js projects consuming more space. Learn more on github
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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Node projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | nvm | 93,676 |
| 2 | distributions | 13,833 |
| 3 | ONLYOFFICE | 6,581 |
| 4 | nodenv | 2,377 |
| 5 | nave | 1,635 |
| 6 | fish-nvm | 536 |
| 7 | node-v8 | 459 |
| 8 | docker-wkhtmltopdf | 395 |
| 9 | docker-node-example | 230 |
| 10 | simple-node-js-react-npm-app | 226 |
| 11 | nano-node-docker | 78 |
| 12 | magic-mirror-raspbian-lite | 48 |
| 13 | nx-library-starter | 36 |
| 14 | Matrix-Mining | 3 |
| 15 | SafexNodeAutoSetup | 3 |
| 16 | nodesize | 0 |
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