Required

• NodeJS v6.x

JavaScript

• Automatic Semicolon Insertion ( ASI 自動插入分號 )
• Immediately Invoked Function Expression ( IIFE 立即函式 )

Express Module

• passportjs - Authentication middleware for Express
• connect-timeout - Request timeout middleware for Connect/Express
• errorhandler - Development-only error handler middleware for Express
• express-jwt - connect/express middleware that validates a JsonWebToken (JWT)
• express-session - Simple session middleware for Express
• express-limiter - Rate limiting middleware for Express
• compression - compression middleware
• multer - handling multipart/form-data middleware
• serve-favicon - favicon serving middleware

Passport Strategy

• passport-local - Username and password authentication strategy for Passport
• passport-jwt - Authenticating with a JSON Web Token for Passport
• passport.socketio - Access passport.js user information from a socket.io connection

Security Module

• jsonwebtoken - Implementation of JSON Web Tokens
• socketio-jwt - Authenticate socket.io incoming connections with JWTs
• nsp - Node security platform command-line tool
• csurf - CSRF token middleware
• safe-regex - Detect possibly catastrophic, exponential-time regular expressions
• lusca - Application security for express
• helmet - Secure Express apps with various HTTP headers
• dotenv Loads environment variables from .env

Communicate

• socketcluster - Highly scalable realtime microframework

Database

• thinky - ORM for RethinkDB
• mongoose - MongoDB

Module

• http-errors - HTTP errors for Express, Koa, Connect, etc. with ease.
• minimist - Parse argument options
• email-verification - Send user verification emails with NodeJS and MongoDB
• jimp - An image processing library written entirely in JavaScript for Node
• node-fetch - A light-weight module that brings window.fetch to node.js and io.js

Utility

• node-schedule - A cron-like and not-cron-like job scheduler
• momentjs - Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in JavaScript
• lodash - A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras.

Test

• ava - Futuristic JavaScript test runner
• mocha
• chai

Manager

• strongloop - API Gateway acts as an intermediary gateway between API consumers (clients) and backend providers (API servers)
• PM2 is a production process manager for Node.js applications with a built-in load balancer