Nodejs - Express or Nest or Koa or Hapi or Fastify ???

[ratanneo]

Frameworks for Nodejs help software architects to develop applications efficiently with ease. Which one to choose and Why?

[SumitMunot]

Express - as It allows reusing code to process data in web applications, storing user sessions, managing cookie files, and handling the payload. It's the most popular one.

Most commonly used in organizations.

[mohsinneo]

NestJS has ExpressJS under the hood, NestJS can be clubbed with Fastify. So this way we can have features of three different technologies in one application.

[SumitMunot]

Yes, we can club it down the road. As a basic boilerplate to start with Express is good initially. What do you think?

[SumitMunot]

Fastify provides full encapsulation for plug-ins, automatically parses JSON with relatively faster rendering, and provides quick routing. Among other benefits, Fastify also has a cleaner syntax for writing async code in controllers.

Express, however, has a stronger user base with plenty of documentation available.

[sagarjadhav521]

There is one more node framework adonis.js which is similar to Laravel and easy to understand, Why adonis.js not getting too much attention in the node community is there any issue with that?

[SumitMunot]

ExpressJS is a minimalist web framework. It gives you the freedom and flexibility to work with any database, ORM or folder structure. AdonisJS on the other hand is an MVC framework.

[akashputhanekar]

Express is a better option. Considering projects from a bigger picture where the majority of developers could almost use them, an express is a common option, especially when it comes to boilerplate development.

To extend further maybe KOA can be extended as KOA is built by the express team itself & is a lightweight framework based on CTX.

[ratanneo]

Express vs Nest : https://blog.logrocket.com/nestjs-vs-express-js/

Express is first and Nest is second best framework. Both have very good community support.

NestJS is based on TypeScript and JavaScript.Nest makes use the Express HTTP framework by default.It can be configured to use Fastify which can improve the Node framework.

Working with Node and Express is great for building a small, lightweight app where the code is nice and easy to read.It gets complex and harder to manage when you add more features.

Nest can organise your application into self-contained modules, each with its own responsibility. Which is easy to understand and manage.

But We can create same structure in Express and we can have flexibility to add any feature as per need without following pre-defined rules(as in nest).

Express is better option to have flexibility in scaling.

[mitul-neosoft]

Express should be used as mostly client will also prefer same.