Node.js
How vibe coders and indie builders use Node.js: 485 projects built with it and 16 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
485
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
3.2%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-6%
Add-ons built for it
16
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- React 116
- Express 107
- PostgreSQL 85
- TypeScript 79
- SQLite 52
- Claude API 52
- JavaScript 51
- Vite 45
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Node.js
- Sublay — Provides a landing page for a developer-focused product, built through a teardown and spec-driven design process.“Landing page v15+ for my product. First time I actually like it, and it was the easiest one yet”
- OMK — Runs a terminal coding agent that works on a local project, with multi-model switching and optional goal mode that checks a user-approved acceptance command.“OMK 1.3.0 — looking for feedback on the first five minutes of a terminal coding agent”
- Spec Architect — Guides spec-driven development from proposal to requirements to tasks, has AI coding agents execute the tasks, and verifies results against the spec.“Spec Architect: a ~27 MB Tauri app for spec-driven development with AI agents”
- jev-job-search — Automatically fills and submits job applications across common job board forms, using a classifier model for fixed-answer fields and Claude for written answers.“Built an open source tool that applies to jobs for me with Jev and Claude”
- StudiaStoria — Offers a browser quiz game where players guess whether the next historical event happened before or after the one shown, plus history summaries and study tools.“My historical timeline game became unexpectedly popular in Italy, so I just translated it into English, German, and French.”
- WireBench 2D — Simulates a 2D electrical wiring bench where users connect terminals and watch contactors and indicator lamps respond to switches and buttons.“I’m building a virtual version of the wiring bench we use in college”
- Slotloom — Lets visitors book meetings through shareable scheduling links and creates calendar events with Google Meet or Teams invites.“Most booking tools charge per seat and keep your calendar data in their cloud, so we built an open source one that runs on your own Cloudflare account”
- jev-job-search — Automatically finds internship postings, ranks them, and fills out application forms in a browser for the user to review.“Built an open-source tool that applies to internships for me”
- corswhy — Sends a CORS preflight OPTIONS request to an API and reports whether the response allows the browser origin, method, and headers.“I built a local CLI to explain a failed CORS preflight”
- Vanishing Crossword — Serves a daily crossword where unsolved words disappear every 45 seconds.“I built a daily word game in a week. 114 visitors so far, and here's what I learned”
- IronBee Express — Runs plain-English browser tasks in a real browser and checks the result against page and API responses.“We built a fast browser agent powered by Jev, with deep reasoning when needed”
- dbm — Manages database backups for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB, storing them locally or in S3 and restoring them into another database of the same type.“Built an open source backup manager after one too many "did I just drop prod?" moments”
- Cursor Remote Lite — Relays a phone interface to a running Cursor editor so the user can answer agent prompts, approve commands, send tasks and review file changes remotely.“I built a free, open-source way to keep using Cursor on my computer from my phone”
- Somaura — Takes a photo of a painful body spot and shows the exact point on a 3D body to press, with pressure and duration guidance and voice instructions.“I kept pressing the wrong spot on my neck for years, so I built an app that finds the right one”
- Wappy — Runs a self-hosted AI agent on WhatsApp with local memory, tool calling and a choice of language models.“Wappy - I wanted a WhatsApp AI agent I could run locally, so I built one”
Latest add-ons built for Node.js
- codeTAC — Traces a UI action back to the components, server functions, database calls and external services behind it.“I built codeTAC to help me understand AI-generated code instead of treating it like a black box”
- Voult — Provides a hosted authentication API for Node.js applications.“High school student here. I made a 1 minute video of the projects I'm building, including an auth platform for Node.js”
- zen.js — Compiles an application's route and schema definitions at boot to generate a request-handling path for Node.js web servers.“I built zen.js, a compiler-first web framework for Node.js — here's how the architecture works.”
- setu-ts — Provides a set of 48 decoupled, plugin-aware TypeScript packages for building full-stack services across Node, Deno, and Bun.“Looking for alpha testers for setu-ts: An open-source, plugin-aware TypeScript development framework”
- pmanager — Runs and supervises application processes across multiple languages, with restarts, health checks, logs, and monitoring.“I made a universal process manager for Node, Bun, Python, Go, Rust, and more”
- Errorcore — Captures bounded runtime context such as locals, async context, request info, recent I/O and execution path around exceptions in Node.js production apps.“I built a tool that saves the state around a Node.js production failure before it disappears”
- Errorcore — Captures runtime state around Node.js production failures so teams can inspect what happened without relying only on logs or reproduction.“I launched a developer tool after realizing production debugging still involves a surprising amount of guesswork”
- coolbeans — Issues software license keys from Stripe or PayPal payments and lets desktop or mobile apps check whether a key is valid.“Built our own licensing service instead of paying per active user, then made it MIT”
- Wotchi — Groups repeated Node.js errors, applies thresholds and cooldowns, and sends alerts to console, Telegram, or a webhook.“I built a small Node.js alerting package after seeing logs ignored”
- filebouncer — Checks uploaded files for spoofed types, polyglot structures, unsafe archive contents and spreadsheet injection before an app processes them.“filebouncer - npm package for detecting suspicious uploads.”
- Jsonlet — Stores application state in local JSON files with atomic writes, locking, migrations, backups, and crash recovery.“I made Jsonlet, a safer way to store local JSON in Node.js”
- nd — Debugs Node.js and TypeScript programs by talking to Node directly over the Chrome DevTools Protocol, with source-mapped breakpoints and expression evaluation.“I made a Node.js debugger called nd.”
- NodeCleaner — Finds and removes Node.js, React Native, and Expo development caches and build artifacts on macOS through an interactive terminal interface.“I built NodeCleaner a simple CLI to clean Node.js, React Native, and Expo development junk on macOS”
- Huko-Engine — Provides a Node.js library for embedding AI agent capabilities into an application with minimal setup code.“Huko-Engine: an out-of-the-box agent engine — give your Node app OpenClaw-grade agent power in ~20 lines”
- MegaCleaner — Scans a Mac for developer caches and other reclaimable files across many ecosystems, flagging stale items and the commands to regenerate them.“I had 16GB free on my Mac. Turns out 135GB of it was dev caches.”
Pitched as alternatives to Node.js
- heso — Fetches web pages, runs their JavaScript, clicks and fills forms, and returns clean JSON for AI agents.“a ~9MB Rust binary for AI agents”
- LightBase — Provides a local desktop-style API client that stores requests and collections as plain JSON files for testing REST, GraphQL, WebSocket and other protocols.“LightBase: Lightweight API & Database Desktop Client”