This is a non exhaustive list of open source tools I have used till now.

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Languages

HTML, CSS, Javascript, Typescript, Python, SQL, Bash, Node.js

Frontend Frameworks/Tools

Forms

• Data Handling
  • react-hook-form
  • formik
• Validators
  • yup
  • zod

Icons

• Icones,Iconify
• react-icons

2D Graphs

• d3.js

UI related

• react
• react-dom
• jQuery

Routing

• react-router-dom

state management

• reduxtoolkit, react-redux, redux-thunk
• zustand
• jotai

Styling Tools

• styled-jsx
• sass
• node-sass
• css-modules
• tailwindcss
• windicss, vite-plugin-windicss

data fetching

• react-query
• @apollo/client
• urql

Frameworks

• next.js

Mis

• @reach/auto-id (ssr friendly id generation, related react issue, react 18's useId solves the issue)

Common Tools for Frontend & Backend

• DOMPurify
• jwt-decode

Data fetching

• isomorphic-unfetch,cross-fetch, isomorphic-fetch and see comparison.
• graphql-request

Graphql

• graphql
• graphql-codegen

Backend Tools/Frameworks

• jsonwebtoken
• uuid
• node-formidable (for file uploads)

HTTP server related and middleware

• express
• apollo-server

Security

• helmet
• cors

Authentication

• passport.js

Session Handling

• express-session, redis, connect-redis
• cookie-parser
• cookie

Database Driver

• mongodb

ORM

for relational table based dbs like Mysql,Postgres. But most also support document based like mongodb

• prisma (supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, SQL Server, SQLite, CockroachDB)
• mikrorm (Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite)
• dataloader (reduce requests to backend through batching and caching)

ODM

for document based dbs like mongodb

• mongoose (straight forward schema based solution,built on top of mongodb), typegoose (Typed Schemas for mongoose)

Graphql

• nexus (Typed GraphQL schema development in Typescript/Javascript)
• type-graphql (Typed GraphQL schema development in Typescript using classes and decorators.)

Hashing libs

• bcrypt
• argon2

Other services

• nodemailer

Databases

• Planetscaledb (mysql)
• Mongodb (NoSql, Document)
• Google's Firestore (NoSql,Document )
• cloudinary

Testing

• Test Runner:
  • vitest (requires vite,packed with lot of features 😱)
  • jest, ts-jest
  • mocha
  • testing-library/react
• Assertions:
  • chai
• API Mocking:
  • msw.js

Note: some testing libs have built-in assertions.

Dev/build Tools

Code versioning

• github, git

Env management

• dotenv
• gen-env-types

Transpiler,Compiler

• ts-node, tsconfig-paths
• babel
• typescript

Watcher

• nodemon
• concurrently
• ts-node-dev
• tsc-watch

Linter

• prettier
• eslint and plugins
• lint-staged

Bundler

• webpack

Web dev build tool

• vite (based on esbuild,rollup,postcss,check here)
• create-react-app (based on webpack and lots of other packages)

Package Manager

• npm
• yarn
• pnpm

other

• husky

Devops

• Github Actions
  • setup node
  • cache
• Github Bots
  • renovate
• Heroku