Today we’ll show you the useful top 8 popular npm packages for React and Node.js.

Top 8 popular npm packages

1. Axios
2. Moment.js
3. Lodash
4. Socket.io
5. UUID
6. Bcrypt
7. Dotenv
8. Nodemon

1. Axios

Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios

2. Moment.js

A JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates.

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/moment

3. Lodash

Lodash is very useful, when working with numbers, arrays, objects, strings, etc.

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash

4. Socket.io

Socket.IO enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/socket.io

5. UUID

UUID is a unique random ids values generator. It generates strong random values.

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid

6. Bcrypt

Bcrypt is a library that help you easily hash passwords and compare them in Node.js.

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bcrypt

7. Dotenv

Dotenv is a zero-dependency module that loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env.

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/dotenv

8. Nodemon

Nodemon is a tool that helps develop node.js based applications by automatically restarting the node application when file changes in the directory are detected.

Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodemon

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