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

Libraries.io is great for searching and filtering through NPM modules, you can also filter by license and keyword: https://libraries.io/search?platforms=NPM

Answer 2

For a fast method available in your console, type:

npm search keyword

< Keyword > searches Title, Description, Author and Keywords of all packages.

Answer 3

npm search works pretty well:

npm search connect

npm view will show you the timestamp of each version and everthing else from package.json (including node version)

npm view connect

Answer 4

https://npms.io is really nice, provides quality and maintenance stats too

Answer 5

It's sad but npm search won't work for me on node version 6+.

A quick workaround is by doing a curl from the command line:

curl --fail -O https://www.npmjs.com/package/q-promise 2>&1 | grep '404'

If this command returns nothing then the module exist if it does return a 404 the name is available for you to use.

Answer 6

https://nodejsmodules.org/ is one that lets you search, as well as browse by popularity