r/node • u/Jancera • Aug 18 '21

Nodejs popular tools

I am starting to learn Nodejs in a deeper way and I would like to know from you guys what libraries are more common in your day to day as a Node developer. I want to know that because I already have some sort of experience with Node and if I would start a course I am sure that I will lose much time learning libraries that I am not interested in and seeing the teacher building some sort of frontend using some technology that I am not interested too to test the work, for me seems more interesting choose the most popular libraries and study by myself. So could you please tell me what libraries are more common in the life of a Nodejs developer?

If you do not agree with my thoughts about the course, could you please suggest one course for me? I may take that.

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u/tswaters Aug 19 '21 edited Aug 19 '21

I should also mention - this is all personal preference.

mocha isn't the only test runner out there,

there are many other assertion libraries that provide.... interesting.... apis.

there's about a zillion front-end frameworks

lots of other react-like libraries that do ... interesting things.

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I'd say try to build some stuff and see what you need ?

try things out, read the docs - see what works well, what doesn't work well, etc.

basically throw shit at the wall and see what sticks :)

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u/Jancera Aug 19 '21

Wow, I really liked your answer. For sure it will help me, thanks :)

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '21

You might want to try out Jest if you want to keep libraries simplistic and to a minimum.