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goldbergyoni/nodebestpractices

✅ The Node.js best practices list (July 2026)

Stack

Dockerfile Express npm

GitHub topics

#best-practices #es6 #eslint #express #expressjs #javascript

Updated: 2026-06-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-09-15
History: 1 history point
License: CC-BY-SA-4.0
Issues: 138 open

105,655

stars

Forks: 10,729
Commits: 3,917 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

expressjs/express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#express #javascript #nodejs #server

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2009-06-26
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 236 open

69,625

stars

Forks: 25,205
Commits: 6,181 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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payloadcms/payload

Payload is the open-source, fullstack Next.js framework, giving you instant backend superpowers. Get a full TypeScript backend and admin panel instantly. Use Payload as a headless CMS or for building powerful applications.

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Stack

TypeScript Astro Express Next.js React npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#cms #content-management #content-management-system #express #graphql #headless

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-04-14
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 1,334 open

45,251

stars

Forks: 4,295
Commits: 16,120 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gofiber/fiber

⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

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Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#express #expressjs #fast #fiber #flexible #framework

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-30
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

40,175

stars

Forks: 2,039
Commits: 7,133 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jaredhanson/passport

Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#express #nodejs #oauth #oauth2 #openid #openid-connect

Updated: 2024-08-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-10-08
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 397 open

23,521

stars

Forks: 1,249
Commits: 645 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

HabitRPG/habitica

A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.

Stack

JavaScript Express Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#css #express #habitica #hacktoberfest #html #javascript

Updated: 2026-09-18
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-02-01
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 117 open

14,168

stars

Forks: 4,447
Commits: 26,081 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

graphile/crystal

🔮 Graphile's Crystal Monorepo; home to Grafast, PostGraphile, pg-introspection, pg-sql2 and much more!

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Stack

TypeScript Express Fastify React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api #automatic-api #express #graphile #graphql #graphql-api

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-14
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 168 open

12,932

stars

Forks: 629
Commits: 16,653 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

GetStream/Winds

A Beautiful Open Source RSS & Podcast App Powered by Getstream.io

Archived

Stack

JavaScript Electron Express React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#activity-stream #algolia-api #create-react-app #electron #electron-app #express

Updated: 2021-10-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-10-26
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 0 open

9,093

stars

Forks: 625
Commits: 3,306 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

santiq/bulletproof-nodejs

Implementation of a bulletproof node.js API 🛡️

Stack

TypeScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#agendajs #boilerplate #express #javascript #mongodb #mongoose

Updated: 2024-06-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-04-21
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

5,773

stars

Forks: 1,149
Commits: 130 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

simov/grant

OAuth Proxy

Stack

JavaScript Express Fastify npm

GitHub topics

#authentication #authorization #aws #aws-lambda #azure #express

Updated: 2025-02-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-06-22
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 43 open

4,164

stars

Forks: 270
Commits: 1,194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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RafalWilinski/express-status-monitor

🚀 Realtime Monitoring solution for Node.js/Express.js apps, inspired by status.github.com, sponsored by https://dynobase.dev

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#express #expressjs #health-check #health-checks #javascript #middleware

Updated: 2026-02-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-07-31
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 68 open

3,615

stars

Forks: 264
Commits: 322 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

animir/node-rate-limiter-flexible

Atomic and non-atomic counters and rate limiting tools. Limit resource access at any scale.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#bruteforce #drizzle #dynamodb #express #hapi #koa

Updated: 2026-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-05-06
History: 1 history point
License: ISC
Issues: 9 open

3,589

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 911 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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tsedio/tsed

:triangular_ruler: Ts.ED is a Node.js and TypeScript framework on top of Express to write your application with TypeScript (or ES6). It provides a lot of decorators and guideline to make your code more readable and less error-prone. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

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Stack

TypeScript Express Fastify React Tailwind CSS npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#cli #contribution #decorators #dependency-injection #express #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-21
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 104 open

3,088

stars

Forks: 292
Commits: 6,452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fhsinchy/docker-handbook-projects

Project codes used in "The Docker Handbook"

Stack

JavaScript Express Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#docker #docker-compose #express #javascript #vite

Updated: 2026-04-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-07
History: 1 history point
License: Unlicense
Issues: 3 open

1,397

stars

Forks: 329
Commits: 38 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

azat-co/cheatsheets

JavaScript and Node.js cheatsheets

Stack

HTML

GitHub topics

#cheatsheet #ecmascript-cheatsheets #es6 #express #javascript #javascript-cheatsheets

Updated: 2024-01-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-06-17
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 0 open

1,351

stars

Forks: 294
Commits: 31 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

timothystewart6/littlelink-server

A lightweight, open source, stateless, and self-hosted alternative to linktree in a Docker container!

Stack

TypeScript Express Next.js React npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#docker #express #hacktoberfest #javascript #link #linktree

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-08-10
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 28 open

1,147

stars

Forks: 189
Commits: 827 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

madlabsinc/mevn-cli

Light speed setup for MEVN(Mongo Express Vue Node) Apps

Stack

JavaScript Express Nuxt Vue npm

GitHub topics

#babel-es6 #babel-preset #babel7 #cli #eslint #express

Updated: 2026-08-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-07-26
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 16 open

832

stars

Forks: 150
Commits: 770 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ganatan/angular-node-java

Angular 22 Fullstack Starter (Node.js, Spring Boot)

Stack

HTML Angular Express Spring Boot Vite Maven npm

GitHub topics

#angular #angular20 #api-rest #backend #docker #express

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2018-11-26
History: 103 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 17 open

824

stars

Forks: 376
Commits: 1,194 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ganatan/angular-node-java-ai

Angular 20 Starter with Node.js, Spring Boot, and AI (LLM, Voice, Podcast).

Stack

HTML Angular Django Django REST Framework Express Maven npm pip

GitHub topics

#ai #angular #angular20 #api-rest #backend #docker

Updated: 2026-06-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-26
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

817

stars

Forks: 380
Commits: 1,172 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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pompelmi/pompelmi

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

Stack

JavaScript Fastify NestJS Next.js npm

GitHub topics

#antivirus #clamav #clamscan #docker-compose #express #file-scanner

Updated: 2026-05-23
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2026-04-11
History: 5 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 6 open

677

stars

Forks: 33
Commits: 91 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lidge-jun/ima2-gen

Minimal CLI + web UI for OpenAI GPT Image 2 generation. Dual auth: API Key (paid) or OAuth via ChatGPT (free). Text-to-image, image-to-image, parallel gen, custom sizes.

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Stack

TypeScript Astro Express React Tailwind CSS npm

GitHub topics

#chatgpt #cli #express #gpt-image-2 #image-generation #nodejs

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-04-21
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

675

stars

Forks: 117
Commits: 1,325 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

operational-co/operational.co

Operational - open-source tool to track important events and receive push notifications on your device.

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Stack

Vue Astro Express Vite Vue Composer npm

GitHub topics

#event-tracker #express #notifications #prisma #push-notifications #pwa

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-24
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 9 open

476

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 262 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ais-one/novex-kit

NodejS Monorepo Template

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Stack

TypeScript Express Vite Vue npm

GitHub topics

#2fa #express #nodejs #openapi #orm #reactjs

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-01-08
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 12 open

461

stars

Forks: 118
Commits: 472 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sameerkumar18/corporate-bs-generator-api

Corporate Bullshit(BuzzWord) Generator API

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#api #bullshit #express #expressjs #javascript #newbie

Updated: 2023-04-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-07-10
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 2 open

359

stars

Forks: 17
Commits: 16 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mustafacagri/mevn-boilerplate

⭐️ the most comprehensive mevn stack boilerplate. ⭐️ mongodb - express - vue 3 (admin dashboard) - nodejs - nuxt 3 (client) boilerplate (pinia, tiptap, slug, vuetify and vuexy and more...) 🎉

Stack

Vue Express Nuxt Vite Vue npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#boilerplate #boilerplate-front-end #express #express-api #expressjs #material-ui

Updated: 2024-09-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-31
History: 1 history point
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

245

stars

Forks: 52
Commits: 168 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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azharimm/phone-specs-api

Phone specifications API

Stack

JavaScript Express npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#api #express #node #nodejs

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-11-01
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 15 open

180

stars

Forks: 56
Commits: 69 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

azharimm/football-standings-api

Display football standings e.g epl, la liga, serie a etc. The data is based on espn site.

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#api #express #node #nodejs

Updated: 2021-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-31
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 4 open

119

stars

Forks: 32
Commits: 23 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

JessVel/sakura-card-captor-api

No description.

Stack

JavaScript Express npm

GitHub topics

#express #heroku #javascript #mongodb #nodejs

Updated: 2021-08-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-02-26
History: 7 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 5 open

stars

Forks: 8
Commits: 36 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Chanran/vueSocketChatroom

vue2.x + vue-router2.x+ vuex2.x + vux2.x + express + socket.io immediate chat room

Stack

JavaScript Express Vue npm

GitHub topics

#express #socket-io #vue-cli #vue-router2 #vuejs2 #vuex2

Updated: 2023-08-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-05-07
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 76 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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