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Catena: Build Type-Safe APIs on Express — Inspired by tRPC, but you can layer it on top of an existing Express codebase.

Madge 7.0: Create Graphs From Your Module Dependencies — A developer tool for generating a visual graph of your module dependencies, finding circular dependencies, and unearthing other useful info.

Modern Errors 7.0: Handle Errors in a Simple, Stable, Consistent Way — Create error classes, wrap or aggregate errors, or use one of several plugins to do things like print bug reporting info, print stack traces, and more.

zx v8.0: Google's Way to Write Shell Scripts with Node — A long-standing way to make scripting a more pleasant experience. zx provides useful wrappers around child_process, escapes arguments and gives sensible defaults. v8.0 somehow makes zx 20x smaller, faster, makes it easier to kill processes, pass input to commands, and more. A substantial release.

Flyweight: An ORM Specifically for SQLite — Some interesting ideas here, a little different to your typical ORM.

Janeway: A Node Console REPL with Object Inspection — Has some neat features including being able to look into buffers with a built-in hex viewer.

Node SQL Parser 5.0: Parse Simple SQL into ASTs — And vice versa (turn ASTs, that you can manipulate, back into SQL).

Phin 4.0: A Simple, Dependency-Free HTTP Request Client — We last linked to this project six years ago so it’s great to see a new major version. Being lightweight is its goal, while still offering all the key features you’re likely to need.

pgmq-js: A Client for Postgres Message Queue (PGMQ) — PGMQ is a message queue system built on top of the Postgres database.

unplugin-parcel-macros: Use Parcel/Bun Macros with Other Bundlers — Macros, as implemented in Parcel and Bun, are JavaScript functions that run at build time and whose values get inlined into the bundle in place of the original call. You can now use this feature with webpack, Vite, Rollup, esbuild, and Next.js.

node-usb 2.12.0: An Improved USB Library for Node — Can you work with USB at a low level from Node code? You sure can. You might like ▶️ this livestream from a couple years back if you want to get into such things, too.

node-crc32-stream 6.0: A Streaming CRC32 Checksummer — A quick way to calculate checksums, and it has deflate support too.

Unfurl 6.4: oEmbed Metadata Scraper — Supports lifting data by way of oEmbed and on pages using Open Graph tags.

node-rate-limiter-flexible 5.0: Limit Number of Actions by Key and Protect Apps from Brute Force Attacks — Can use Redis, in-process memory, memcached, MongoDB, Postgres or more to count actions in either a single process or distributed environment. Now with Prisma support.

SQS Consumer 8.2: Build Amazon SQS-Based Apps Without the Boilerplate — Build SQS-based (Simple Queue Service) apps more simply by defining an async function that handles the SQS message processing.

AWS Lambda Web Adapter: Run Typical HTTP Webapps on AWS Lambda — A handy (Rust-powered) adapter that makes it easier to run apps built in any language on AWS’s serverless platform by letting them stick to their usual HTTP serving ways with this adapter bridging the gap.

DashPress: Generate Versatile, Simple Admin Apps Quickly — Formerly known as Hadmean, this no-code admin app generator built atop Node and Next.js is easy to get started with. Just run: npx dashpress. If you want to see what the result is like, there’s a live demo which feels fast. (Note: AGPL 3.0 licensed.)

yamlify-object 2.0: Stringify Objects with YAML Syntax — Take an object / array and turn it into a YAML string (which you can colorize with yamlify-object-colors if you want to use it for debugging purposes at the console.) js-yaml is another popular option in this space (that can parse YAML, too) but hasn’t had a release in three years.

node-libcurl 4.0: libcurl Bindings for Node — libcurl is a very powerful and established way to fetch data from URLs across numerous protocols (HTTP, IMAP, SCP, SFTP, LDAP, Gopher..)

pkg-tools 1.0: An Opinionated Build Toolchain with Typed Configuration — A thin abstraction on top of the unbuild build system that centralizes your build config and helps consistently build packages supporting both CJS and ESM.

Tinybench: A Tiny, Simple Benchmarking Library — No dependencies, but uses whatever precise timing capabilities are available (e.g. process.hrtime or peformance.now). You can then benchmark whatever functions you want, specify how long or how many times to benchmark for, and get a variety of stats in return.

⌨️🐈  wacat: Tests Your Webapp Against 'Cat Chaos' — Uses a ‘cat walking across your keyboard’ style approach to tormenting your webapps with random clicks and form submissions. (Fear not, no real cats are involved in the running of this tool.)

Node Boilerplate 2.0: A Skeleton for Express Microservices — There's a few projects like this, but Santosh has clearly put effort into maintaining this one, which provides a quick, opinionated starting point for building Web services with Node, Express, TypeScript, along with some initial tests too.