How to find search/find npm packages

Question

What ways are there to find npm packages?

Below is community maintained listing compiled from the answers below.

NPM Specific

• In console, npm search <keyword>
• https://www.npmjs.org/
• http://eirikb.github.com/nipster/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/10571033
• http://node-modules.com/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/13593402
• https://nodejsmodules.org/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/17821476
• http://npmsearch.com/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/34471018

Generic

• http://github.com
• https://libraries.io

Dead

• http://browsenpm.org/ via https://stackoverflow.com/a/24338500
• https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules
• http://toolbox.no.de/ aka http://nodetoolbox.com/
• http://packagefinder1-enome.dotcloud.com/

Answer 1

There's nipster too, based on npm + github rating.

Answer 2

Here's another one: https://npmaddict.com/

Not a search but daily list of New packages with at least 5 GitHub stars

Answer 3

I personally use npmsearch.com

I'm not sure how it works internally but it usually gives the best results.

Answer 4

We just released http://search.node.modules.by.locoticket.com (alpha version) which allows advanced search filters like:

• Having certain modules as descendants/descendency
• Look for terms within the keywords/description/readme
• Get results that have been modified recently
• Etc...

I hope you find it useful. We created it as it was getting quite hard for us to find what we wanted as the number of modules was growing so rapidly.

Answer 5

Just in case anyone comes across this question, I also created a tool to help people discover what npm packages other people are using:

http://www.npmdiscover.com

Answer 6

https://nodejsmodules.org/ is one that lets you search, as well as browse by popularity