How to find search/find npm packages

Question

What ways are there to find npm packages?

Below is community maintained listing compiled from the answers below.

NPM Specific

• In console,

Answer 1

Here's another one: https://npmaddict.com/

Not a search but daily list of New packages with at least 5 GitHub stars

Answer 2

There's nipster too, based on npm + github rating.

Answer 3

npmsearch sorts the results by a combination of relevance and downloads. The command line version can be installed from npm:

[sudo] npm install -g npmsearch

disclamer: I am the author of npmsearch

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node-modules allows you to personalize your results according to the modules that you have starred/followed on github

Answer 4

I personally use npmsearch.com

I'm not sure how it works internally but it usually gives the best results.

Answer 5

https://github.com/Enome/node-package-finder (Latest commit 26ff789 on 4 May 2012, should count as dead)

Answer 6

Just in case anyone comes across this question, I also created a tool to help people discover what npm packages other people are using:

http://www.npmdiscover.com