Awesome Micro npm Packages

A curated list of small, focused Node.js modules.

Inspired by the awesome list thing.

Articles

• One-line node modules
• Module best practices
• Evaluating Packages Part 1 - Turn to community
• Evaluating Packages Part 2 - Review repository
• Small modules: it’s not quite that simple
• In Defense of Hyper Modular JavaScript
• Tiny npm package: Guidelines to create a Node.js module following the small package philosophy
• The cost of small modules

Modules

Array

• is-sorted - A small module to check if an Array is sorted.
• array-first - Get the first element or first n elements of an array.
• array-last - Return the last element in an array.
• arr-flatten - Recursively flatten an array or arrays.
• dedupe - Remove duplicates from an array.
• array-range - Creates a new array with given range.
• arr-diff - Returns an array with only the unique values from the first array, by excluding all values from additional arrays using strict equality for comparisons.
• filled-array - Returns an array filled with the specified input
• map-array - Map object keys and values into an array.
• in-array - Return true if any of passed values exists in array - faster than using indexOf.
• unordered-array-remove - Efficiently remove an element from an unordered array without doing a splice.
• array-swap - Swap position of two items in an array.
• mirrarray - Creates a keymirror object from an array of valid keys.
• group-array - Group array of objects into lists.
• array.chunk - Split array/TypedArray to chunks of given size.
• fast-cartesian - Fast cartesian product.

String

• decamelize - Convert a camelized string into a lowercased one with a custom separator: unicornRainbow → unicorn_rainbow.
• pad-left - Left pad a string with zeros or a specified string.
• to-camel-case - Convert a string to a camel case.
• to-capital-case - Convert a string to a capital case.
• to-constant-case - Convert a string to a constant case.
• to-dot-case - Convert a string to a dot case.
• to-no-case - Remove an existing case from a string.
• to-pascal-case - Convert a string to a pascal case.
• to-sentence-case - Convert a string to a sentence case.
• to-snake-case - Convert a string to a snake case.
• to-space-case - Convert a string to a space case.
• to-title-case - Convert a string to a title case.
• node-slug - slugifies even utf-8 chars.
• rtrim - Strip whitespace - or other characters - from the end of a string.
• slice.js - Javascript library to enhance String.substring / Array.slice with python slice style.
• strip-ansi - Strip ANSI escape codes.
• striptags - An implementation of PHP's strip_tags in Node.js.
• parse-next-json-value - Parse next JSON value from string allowing extraneous characters after value.