What is ExpressJS and what are its top alternatives?
Top Alternatives to ExpressJS
- Koa
Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware. ...
- React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project. ...
- Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind. ...
- Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. ...
- Golang
Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language. ...
- NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018. ...
- Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching. ...
- hapi
hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web applications and services. ...
ExpressJS alternatives & related posts
- Async/Await5
- JavaScript5
- REST API1
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We are using Node.js and ExpressJS to build a REST services that is middleware of a legacy system. MongoDB as database. Vue.js helps us to make rapid UI to test use cases. Frontend is build for mobile with Ionic . We like using JavaScript and ES6 .
I think next step could be to use Koa but I am not sure.
Will base most server-side APIs on Fastify . Smaller, faster, easier. Faster than Koa; and twice as fast as ExpressJS.
- Components781
- Virtual dom661
- Performance570
- Simplicity495
- Composable440
- Data flow178
- Declarative163
- Isn't an mvc framework125
- Reactive updates115
- Explicit app state113
- JSX41
- Learn once, write everywhere26
- Uni-directional data flow20
- Easy to Use19
- Works great with Flux Architecture15
- Great perfomance11
- Built by Facebook9
- Javascript8
- TypeScript support6
- Speed6
- Scalable5
- Awesome5
- Hooks5
- Easy to start5
- Feels like the 90s5
- Server Side Rendering4
- Functional4
- Server side views4
- Fancy third party tools4
- Cross-platform4
- Scales super well4
- Excellent Documentation4
- Props4
- Has functional components3
- Simple3
- Closer to standard JavaScript and HTML than others3
- Super easy3
- Allows creating single page applications3
- Rich ecosystem3
- Great migration pathway for older systems3
- SSR3
- Fast evolving3
- Simple, easy to reason about and makes you productive3
- Just the View of MVC3
- Beautiful and Neat Component Management3
- Sdfsdfsdf3
- Very gentle learning curve3
- Start simple3
- Has arrow functions3
- Strong Community3
- Fragments2
- Every decision architecture wise makes sense2
- Split your UI into components with one true state2
- Sharable2
- Easy as Lego2
- Permissively-licensed2
- Image upload1
- Recharts1
- Requires discipline to keep architecture organized36
- No predefined way to structure your app24
- Need to be familiar with lots of third party packages23
- JSX9
- Not enterprise friendly7
- One-way binding only5
- State consistency with backend neglected2
- Bad Documentation2
- Paradigms change too fast1
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I am starting to become a full-stack developer, by choosing and learning .NET Core for API Development, Angular CLI / React for UI Development, MongoDB for database, as it a NoSQL DB and Flutter / React Native for Mobile App Development. Using Postman, Markdown and Visual Studio Code for development.
I picked up an idea to develop and it was no brainer I had to go with React for the frontend. I was faced with challenges when it came to what component framework to use. I had worked extensively with Material-UI but I needed something different that would offer me wider range of well customized components (I became pretty slow at styling). I brought in Evergreen after several sampling and reads online but again, after several prototype development against Evergreen—since I was using TypeScript and I had to import custom Type, it felt exhaustive. After I validated Evergreen with the designs of the idea I was developing, I also noticed I might have to do a lot of styling. I later stumbled on Material Kit, the one specifically made for React . It was promising with beautifully crafted components, most of which fits into the designs pages I had on ground.
A major problem of Material Kit for me is it isn't written in TypeScript and there isn't any plans to support its TypeScript version. I rolled up my sleeve and started converting their components to TypeScript and if you'll ask me, I am still on it.
In summary, I used the Create React App with TypeScript support and I am spending some time converting Material Kit to TypeScript before I start developing against it. All of these components are going to be hosted on Bit.
If you feel I am crazy or I have gotten something wrong, I'll be willing to listen to your opinion. Also, if you want to have a share of whatever TypeScript version of Material Kit I end up coming up with, let me know.
Flask
- Lightweight315
- Python272
- Minimal214
- Open source146
- Documentation98
- Easy to use66
- Easy to setup and get it going54
- Well designed53
- Easy to develop and maintain applications48
- Easy to get started45
- Beautiful code18
- Rapid development17
- Powerful14
- Expressive13
- Awesome12
- Flexibilty12
- Customizable11
- Simple to use11
- Love it11
- Speed11
- Get started quickly11
- Easy to integrate10
- Perfect for small to large projects with superb docs.9
- For it flexibility9
- Flexibilty and easy to use8
- Productive8
- Flask7
- User friendly6
- Not JS6
- Secured5
- Unopinionated4
- Orm1
- Secure1
- Not JS10
- Context7
- Not fast5
- Don't has many module as in spring1
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One of our top priorities at Pinterest is fostering a safe and trustworthy experience for all Pinners. As Pinterest’s user base and ads business grow, the review volume has been increasing exponentially, and more content types require moderation support. To solve greater engineering and operational challenges at scale, we needed a highly-reliable and performant system to detect, report, evaluate, and act on abusive content and users and so we created Pinqueue.
Pinqueue-3.0 serves as a generic platform for content moderation and human labeling. Under the hood, Pinqueue3.0 is a Flask + React app powered by Pinterest’s very own Gestalt UI framework. On the backend, Pinqueue3.0 heavily relies on PinLater, a Pinterest-built reliable asynchronous job execution system, to handle the requests for enqueueing and action-taking. Using PinLater has significantly strengthened Pinqueue3.0’s overall infra with its capability of processing a massive load of events with configurable retry policies.
Hundreds of millions of people around the world use Pinterest to discover and do what they love, and our job is to protect them from abusive and harmful content. We’re committed to providing an inspirational yet safe experience to all Pinners. Solving trust & safety problems is a joint effort requiring expertise across multiple domains. Pinqueue3.0 not only plays a critical role in responsively taking down unsafe content, it also has become an enabler for future ML/automation initiatives by providing high-quality human labels. Going forward, we will continue to improve the review experience, measure review quality and collaborate with our machine learning teams to solve content moderation beyond manual reviews at an even larger scale.
Hey, so I developed a basic application with Python. But to use it, you need a python interpreter. I want to add a GUI to make it more appealing. What should I choose to develop a GUI? I have very basic skills in front end development (CSS, JavaScript). I am fluent in python. I'm looking for a tool that is easy to use and doesn't require too much code knowledge. I have recently tried out Flask, but it is kinda complicated. Should I stick with it, move to Django, or is there another nice framework to use?
- Rapid development646
- Open source476
- Great community409
- Easy to learn359
- Mvc268
- Beautiful code219
- Elegant212
- Free196
- Great packages195
- Great libraries182
- Restful71
- Powerful69
- Comes with auth and crud admin panel68
- Great documentation65
- Great for web62
- Python48
- Great orm38
- Great for api36
- All included27
- Fast22
- Web Apps22
- Used by top startups19
- Clean18
- Easy setup17
- Sexy16
- Convention over configuration13
- ORM13
- The Django community10
- Allows for very rapid development with great libraries10
- King of backend world8
- Its elegant and practical7
- Great MVC and templating engine7
- Batteries included6
- Full stack6
- Have not found anything that it can't do6
- Fast prototyping6
- Cross-Platform6
- Mvt6
- Easy to develop end to end AI Models5
- Very quick to get something up and running5
- Easy Structure , useful inbuilt library5
- Easy4
- Many libraries4
- Great peformance4
- Easy to use4
- Modular4
- Python community4
- Just the right level of abstraction3
- Scaffold3
- Full-Text Search3
- Map3
- Zero code burden to change databases3
- Easy to change database manager3
- Node js1
- Fastapi0
- Rails0
- Underpowered templating25
- Autoreload restarts whole server21
- Underpowered ORM20
- URL dispatcher ignores HTTP method15
- Internal subcomponents coupling10
- Not nodejs7
- Configuration hell7
- Admin7
- Not as clean and nice documentation like Laravel5
- Bloated admin panel included3
- Not typed3
- Python3
- Overwhelming folder structure2
- InEffective Multithreading2
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Simple controls over complex technologies, as we put it, wouldn't be possible without neat UIs for our user areas including start page, dashboard, settings, and docs.
Initially, there was Django. Back in 2011, considering our Python-centric approach, that was the best choice. Later, we realized we needed to iterate on our website more quickly. And this led us to detaching Django from our front end. That was when we decided to build an SPA.
For building user interfaces, we're currently using React as it provided the fastest rendering back when we were building our toolkit. It’s worth mentioning Uploadcare is not a front-end-focused SPA: we aren’t running at high levels of complexity. If it were, we’d go with Ember.js.
However, there's a chance we will shift to the faster Preact, with its motto of using as little code as possible, and because it makes more use of browser APIs. One of our future tasks for our front end is to configure our Webpack bundler to split up the code for different site sections. For styles, we use PostCSS along with its plugins such as cssnano which minifies all the code.
All that allows us to provide a great user experience and quickly implement changes where they are needed with as little code as possible.
Hey, so I developed a basic application with Python. But to use it, you need a python interpreter. I want to add a GUI to make it more appealing. What should I choose to develop a GUI? I have very basic skills in front end development (CSS, JavaScript). I am fluent in python. I'm looking for a tool that is easy to use and doesn't require too much code knowledge. I have recently tried out Flask, but it is kinda complicated. Should I stick with it, move to Django, or is there another nice framework to use?
Golang
- High-performance531
- Simple, minimal syntax387
- Fun to write354
- Easy concurrency support via goroutines295
- Fast compilation times267
- Goroutines189
- Statically linked binaries that are simple to deploy177
- Simple compile build/run procedures148
- Backed by google134
- Great community131
- Garbage collection built-in50
- Built-in Testing42
- Excellent tools - gofmt, godoc etc41
- Elegant and concise like Python, fast like C38
- Awesome to Develop34
- Used for Docker25
- Flexible interface system24
- Deploy as executable22
- Great concurrency pattern22
- Open-source Integration19
- Fun to write and so many feature out of the box16
- Easy to read15
- Its Simple and Heavy duty14
- Go is God14
- Powerful and simple13
- Easy to deploy13
- Concurrency11
- Best language for concurrency11
- Rich standard library10
- Safe GOTOs10
- Clean code, high performance9
- Easy setup9
- Hassle free deployment8
- High performance8
- Simplicity, Concurrency, Performance8
- Single binary avoids library dependency issues7
- Used by Giants of the industry7
- Simple, powerful, and great performance6
- Cross compiling6
- Very sophisticated syntax5
- Garbage Collection5
- Gofmt5
- WYSIWYG5
- Excellent tooling5
- Widely used4
- Kubernetes written on Go4
- Keep it simple and stupid3
- No generics2
- Operator goto1
- You waste time in plumbing code catching errors41
- Verbose25
- Packages and their path dependencies are braindead22
- Google's documentations aren't beginer friendly15
- Dependency management when working on multiple projects15
- Automatic garbage collection overheads10
- Uncommon syntax8
- Type system is lacking (no generics, etc)6
- Collection framework is lacking (list, set, map)2
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How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:
Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.
Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:
https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/
(GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)
Bindings/Operator: Python Java Node.js Go C++ Kubernetes JavaScript OpenShift C# Apache Spark
Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.
We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)
We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.
Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.
#FrameworksFullStack #Languages
NGINX
- High-performance http server1.4K
- Performance893
- Easy to configure727
- Open source606
- Load balancer529
- Free287
- Scalability287
- Web server223
- Simplicity174
- Easy setup135
- Content caching29
- Web Accelerator20
- Capability14
- Fast13
- Predictability11
- High-latency11
- Reverse Proxy7
- Supports http/26
- The best of them5
- Great Community4
- Lots of Modules4
- Enterprise version4
- High perfomance proxy server3
- Embedded Lua scripting3
- Reversy Proxy3
- Streaming media delivery3
- Streaming media3
- Fast and easy to set up2
- Slim2
- Blash2
- Lightweight2
- saltstack2
- Virtual hosting1
- Along with Redis Cache its the Most superior1
- Ingress controller1
- Narrow focus. Easy to configure. Fast1
- GRPC-Web1
- Advanced features require subscription8
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Recently I have been working on an open source stack to help people consolidate their personal health data in a single database so that AI and analytics apps can be run against it to find personalized treatments. We chose to go with a #containerized approach leveraging Docker #containers with a local development environment setup with Docker Compose and nginx for container routing. For the production environment we chose to pull code from GitHub and build/push images using Jenkins and using Kubernetes to deploy to Amazon EC2.
We also implemented a dashboard app to handle user authentication/authorization, as well as a custom SSO server that runs on Heroku which allows experts to easily visit more than one instance without having to login repeatedly. The #Backend was implemented using my favorite #Stack which consists of FeathersJS on top of Node.js and ExpressJS with PostgreSQL as the main database. The #Frontend was implemented using React, Redux.js, Semantic UI React and the FeathersJS client. Though testing was light on this project, we chose to use AVA as well as ESLint to keep the codebase clean and consistent.
We switched to Traefik so we can use the REST API to dynamically configure subdomains and have the ability to redirect between multiple servers.
We still use nginx with a docker-compose to expose the traffic from our APIs and TCP microservices, but for managing routing to the internet Traefik does a much better job
The biggest win for naologic was the ability to set dynamic configurations without having to restart the server
- Clean architecture529
- Growing community380
- Composer friendly358
- Open source329
- The only framework to consider for php309
- Mvc212
- Quickly develop204
- Dependency injection162
- Application architecture151
- Embraces good community packages139
- Write less, do more68
- Orm (eloquent)63
- Restful routing61
- Database migrations & seeds51
- Artisan scaffolding and migrations50
- Awesome36
- Great documentation36
- Awsome, Powerfull, Fast and Rapid27
- Build Apps faster, easier and better26
- Promotes elegant coding25
- Eloquent ORM22
- JSON friendly22
- Modern PHP22
- Easy to learn, scalability22
- Blade Template21
- Most easy for me21
- Test-Driven20
- Beautiful20
- Security14
- Based on SOLID14
- Clean Documentation12
- Easy to attach Middleware12
- Cool12
- Convention over Configuration11
- Simple11
- Easy Request Validatin10
- Simpler9
- Easy to use9
- Fast9
- Friendly API8
- Get going quickly straight out of the box. BYOKDM8
- Laravel + Cassandra = Killer Framework8
- Its just wow8
- Super easy and powerful7
- Less dependencies7
- Simplistic , easy and faster7
- Great customer support6
- Its beautiful to code in6
- Speed5
- Laravel Mix5
- Minimum system requirements5
- The only "cons" is wrong! No static method just Facades5
- Fast and Clarify framework5
- Active Record5
- Php75
- Easy5
- Laragon4
- Composer4
- Easy views handling and great ORM4
- Eloquent4
- Ease of use3
- Laravel Forge and Envoy3
- Laravel Horizon and Telescope3
- Intuitive usage3
- Laravel Spark3
- Laravel Nova3
- Laravel casher3
- Laravel Passport3
- Cashier with Braintree and Stripe3
- Rapid development2
- Scout2
- Deployment1
- PHP48
- Too many dependency31
- Slower than the other two22
- A lot of static method calls for convenience17
- Too many include15
- Heavy12
- Bloated8
- Laravel7
- Confusing6
- Too underrated5
- Not fast with MongoDB3
- Difficult to learn1
- Not using SOLID principles1
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I need to build a web application plus android and IOS apps for an enterprise, like an e-commerce portal. It will have intensive use of MySQL to display thousands (40-50k) of live product information in an interactive table (searchable, filterable), live delivery tracking. It has to be secure, as it will handle information on customers, sales, inventory. Here is the technology stack: Backend: Laravel 7 Frondend: Vue.js, React or AngularJS?
Need help deciding technology stack. Thanks.
Back at the start of 2017, we decided to create a web-based tool for the SEO OnPage analysis of our clients' websites. We had over 2.000 websites to analyze, so we had to perform thousands of requests to get every single page from those websites, process the information and save the big amounts of data somewhere.
Very soon we realized that the initial chosen script language and database, PHP, Laravel and MySQL, was not going to be able to cope efficiently with such a task.
By that time, we were doing some experiments for other projects with a language we had recently get to know, Go , so we decided to get a try and code the crawler using it. It was fantastic, we could process much more data with way less CPU power and in less time. By using the concurrency abilites that the language has to offers, we could also do more Http requests in less time.
Unfortunately, I have no comparison numbers to show about the performance differences between Go and PHP since the difference was so clear from the beginning and that we didn't feel the need to do further comparison tests nor document it. We just switched fully to Go.
There was still a problem: despite the big amount of Data we were generating, MySQL was performing very well, but as we were adding more and more features to the software and with those features more and more different type of data to save, it was a nightmare for the database architects to structure everything correctly on the database, so it was clear what we had to do next: switch to a NoSQL database. So we switched to MongoDB, and it was also fantastic: we were expending almost zero time in thinking how to structure the Database and the performance also seemed to be better, but again, I have no comparison numbers to show due to the lack of time.
We also decided to switch the website from PHP and Laravel to JavaScript and Node.js and ExpressJS since working with the JSON Data that we were saving now in the Database would be easier.
As of now, we don't only use the tool intern but we also opened it for everyone to use for free: https://tool-seo.com
- Makes me Hapi making REST APIs26
- Simpler than other REST libraries14
- Configuration14
- Quality Driven Ecosystem13
- Modularization13
- Easy testability5
- Better validation1
- Restify0
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What is the best way to increase your income as a freelancer in 2019? What frameworks should be the best to learn? React Node.js Docker Kubernetes Sequelize Mongoose MongoDB ExpressJS hapi Based on trends I've picked up a JS full stack. If you need to work under startups you may replace React with Vue.js . If you want to work in outsourcing Angular 2+ may be better.
What is your opinion?