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![]() Hapi comes with a large set of separate, but tightly integrated and supported plugins for features like logging, templating, caching, error handling etc. Now spun out as open source framework with no ties to its originating company, Hapi remains popular for larger. Hapi was developed at Walmart to provide a rock solid foundation for their e-commerce business. Claiming to be inspired by Hapi and Express, the maintainers have chosen to focus on balancing developer experience with raw speed and performance.Īlthough Fastify is again a very minimal framework, the middleware architecture is compatible with Express and Restify middlewares, greatly expanding possible use cases.įastify comes with experimental HTTP 2.0 support and ships with TypeScript typings. Fastifyįastify is an API framework 100% aimed at performance. Some of which, like Passportjs, have come to be standards in themselves.ĭue to its minimal footprint, frameworks like Sails.js and Nest use Express as a base application layer and extend it with extra, opinionated features. Extra functionality is added using one of the many middleware projects available. ![]() It is still a very minimal framework that, on install, gives you a bare bones API server. ![]() In the community, AdonisJs is often compared to PHP’s Laravel although this can be said of any framework using implementing MVC patterns. This also means that for instance the test runner or template engines are probably new to most users, although you can still use other runners or templating engines of course.ĪdonisJs was started in 2016 and is aimed at full stack usage: HTTP request routing, templating, authentication and database ORM are all available out of the box. This means the AdonisJS eco system comes with a set of specific modules that neatly slot into the core framework. AdonisJsĪdonisJs takes a page from the Hapi manual by explicitly choosing to write its own dependencies from scratch. Some come with supported, first party modules to extent the core, others rely more on community supplied extensions. It speaks for many of the frameworks listed here that all of them can be coaxed into any of the roles on the spectrum. We mark these as Minimal as in the core is small, but the eco-system provides modules to grow the range of features. In this case you need a framework that can start small, but can grow in complexity and functionality with either plugins or middlewares. Of course, your use case might be somewhere in between. “We need a back end API endpoint that ingests IOT data as small JSON messages.” A completely different use case would be: We mark these as Full Stack in this article. “We need a full web app, with HTML templating, database models, authentication, API integrations, mailing etc.” You should carefully consider how these map to your own use case currently and as far as you can tell in the future. Choosing a Node.js frameworkĮach framework has its goals, design decisions and peculiarities. Of course, some frameworks use Express under the hood, i.e. Only Koa and Hapi register on this graph as tiny slivers of color. Express completely dwarves the amount of downloads of any of its competitors. I had to re-check the data on the NPM site for this. In this light, Nest seems fairly lean where Sails has almost four times the direct dependencies. Node and its NPM package management solution gets a bad wrap for pulling in (transitive) dependencies. Interestingly Sails and Express have almost flat lined in comparison, but that could also be due to market saturation: only so many people out there interested in giving Github stars to Node.js frameworks. The number is a fairly good approximation, but the raw data is a bit hard to come by. The y-axis is the percentage of growth from roughly the start of January 2018 up till mid-December 2018. The explosive growth of Nest becomes very clear when we track the growth of Github stars over 2018. But the total amount of stars is maybe not the clearest indicator of relevancy in 2019. Sails, Koa and Express are clearly head and shoulders above the rest with regard to Github stars. That is why in this Node.js framework roundup we have categories on sponsorship, donations and NPM audit vulnerabilities to give better insight into how each of the frameworks listed tackles these issues. Similarly, security concerns were top of mind with some popular Node / JS packages being hijacked and Github launching their security alerts feature for projects hosted on their site. Developer communities discussed the role of corporate sponsorship and how to maintain a project used by millions but not supported financially. 2018 was an interesting year for Node.js frameworks and open source software in general.
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