#nodejs

Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for building reactive web and mobile applications, bundling a build system, an isomorphic client/server data layer with real-time syncing, and integration with frontend libraries like React, Vue, Blaze, and Svelte.

Fastify is a high-performance Node.js web framework built around a powerful plugin/encapsulation architecture and JSON Schema-based validation and serialization. It aims to minimize per-request overhead while keeping a clean, developer-friendly API for building HTTP APIs and services.

Medusa is an open-source, headless commerce platform built in TypeScript that provides modular building blocks—orders, carts, products, pricing, fulfillment—plus a customization framework so developers can build bespoke commerce backends without rewriting core commerce logic.

Wasp is a Rails-like, declarative full-stack web framework that uses a high-level spec file to generate a React + TanStack Query frontend, Node.js/Express backend, and Prisma database layer — handling auth, RPC, jobs, and deployment with minimal boilerplate.

Browserify lets you write Node-style modules using require() and bundle them into a single file that runs in the browser, resolving the CommonJS dependency graph and shimming Node core modules. It pioneered the idea of bringing npm packages to the front end.

node-gyp is the cross-platform command-line tool that compiles native add-on modules for Node.js, wrapping a vendored copy of Google's gyp build-configuration generator to drive the local C/C++ toolchain. It is invoked automatically by npm whenever a package contains native code that must be built from source.