Top 1000 most depended-upon packages have been list at here.

I list the top 10 at here and give a short memo for each one. (with the geek style, index start from 0, juist copy from the original page, :))

1. lodash - 43718 github

   Lodash’s modular methods are great for: Iterating arrays, objects, & strings Manipulating & testing values Creating composite functions

2. request - 25619 github

   Request is designed to be the simplest way possible to make http calls. It supports HTTPS and follows redirects by default.

3. chalk - 21059 github

   Terminal string styling done right

1. async - 19266 github

   Async is a utility module which provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript.

2. commander - 18662 github

   The complete solution for node.js command-line interfaces, inspired by Ruby’s commander.

3. express - 18296 github

   Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

4. debug - 15297 github

   A tiny JavaScript debugging utility modelled after Node.js core’s debugging technique. Works in Node.js and web browsers.

5. underscore - 14823 github

   Underscore.js is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides support for the usual functional suspects (each, map, reduce, filter…) without extending any core JavaScript objects.

   some voice - “Lo-Dash is inspired by underscore, but nowadays is superior solution”.

6. bluebird - 14158 github

   Bluebird is a fully featured promise library with focus on innovative features and performance

7. react - 14136 github

   React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

Some notes:

• Server-side, the Expressjs is in the 6th place, while the KOA is in the 156th
• Front-end, the react is in the 10th place, while angular in the 46th, vue in the 50th.