NPM
(Node Package Management)

NPM is a way to get & install  3rd party packages.  It is handy and have lots of useful packages.

Visit here: http://npmjs.org/


Install:$ sudo curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh



Here are my recommendations for packages:
# for debugging
$ sudo npm install node-inspector

# for Profiling
$ sudo npm install profile

# Install Express, the Node.js framework
$ sudo npm install express

# Install Template Engines (Now, let’s install Jade, jQuery Templates and EJS. However,

$ sudo npm install jade jqtpl ejs


# XML related, install node-expat and then node-xml2js-expat

$ sudo apt-get install -y libexpat1-dev
$ sudo npm install node-xml2js
$ sudo npm install xml2js-expat

# handle query string
$ sudo npm install querystring

# Install Mongoose, (Mongo Driver)
$ sudo npm install mongoose

# Install seq for control flow management
$ sudo npm install seq

# Install microTime for execution time calculation
$ sudo npm install microtime

# Install UUid
$ sudo npm install node-uuid

# Install Extra Encryption library
$ sudo npm install dcrypt