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For those that don't know TJ Holowaychuk, he's the guy behind express and commander.js (and a lot more) which are two of the most popular node.js packages.

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"First, lets admit the facts: as of today, it is possible to produce a competitive Node application whose entire stack will comfortably rest on various frameworks, tools and libraries developed exclusively by TJ. If you are doing things with Node, you will not escape TJ. He is omnipresent."

http://www.quora.com/TJ-Holowaychuk-1/How-is-TJ-Holowaychuk-...

My favorites are jade and stylus, which are also hot!

Mocha is the only JavaScript testing framework that works on the server and the browser and is simply beautiful. Superagent is likewise a simple and obvious API that works identically in both environments.

TJ has done quite a bit to advance the state of the art in JavaScript development, it will be interesting to see what he does with Go.

Jasmine works on the server and the browser. http://jasmine.github.io/1.3/introduction.html

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