Too late to edit, but: I have noticed the author is and has been merging pull requests, so I partially retract my statement ;)
The list was initially a text document on my computer as a reference on useful modules when learning Node, as the discovery on npm was really bad. 2 years later and the discovery on npm has gotten even worse. This is my try at making something a bit more coherent. It's obviously biased and I've included some of my own packages I find useful, but as stated earlier, happy to change things around.