Database

• Main persistence: MongoDB
  • ODM / Mongo webdriver: Mongoose
• Session storage & caching: Redis

Backend frameworks

• Backend framework: ExpressJS
• REST API: express-restify-mongoose

Frontend frameworks

• UI: ReactJS
• Client data store: Redux
• Extra UI components: React-Bootstrap
• Client-side routing: React-Router
• Inline styling: Radium
• General styling: SCSS (using inline for everything is silly)
• cross-browser styling: normalize.css

Build tools

• Task runner: Gulp
• Frontend build: Webpack
• Transpiler: Babel (ES6 --> ES5)
• Dev server persistence: nodemon
• ESLint
• production build tools: jsmin

Authentication

• PassportJS
• Google OAuth2
• cookie-parser
• express-session

Utility libs

• universal (used front & backend): lodash
• frontend-only: jQuery
• promises: bluebird
• configuration management: config

Logging

• backend logging: Winston
• stacktrace cleaners: trace, clarify
• pm2 logs
• frontend data store tracing: redux-devtools
• UI component hierarchy tracing: react browser plugin

Deployment

• Deploying to Heroku
• Using Procfile & package.json hooks
• server persistence: pm2