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Alternatives to NestJS

AdonisJS, FeathersJS, Koa, LoopBack, and hapi are the most popular alternatives and competitors to NestJS.
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What is NestJS and what are its top alternatives?

Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses progressive JavaScript, is built with TypeScript (preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript) and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming). Under the hood, Nest makes use of Express, but also, provides compatibility with a wide range of other libraries, like e.g. Fastify, allowing for easy use of the myriad third-party plugins which are available.
NestJS is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
NestJS is an open source tool with 67K GitHub stars and 7.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to NestJS's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to NestJS

  • AdonisJS
    AdonisJS

    It is a Node.js Framework which is highly focused on developer ergonomics, stability and confidence. ...

  • FeathersJS
    FeathersJS

    Feathers is a real-time, micro-service web framework for NodeJS that gives you control over your data via RESTful resources, sockets and flexible plug-ins. ...

  • Koa
    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. ...

  • LoopBack
    LoopBack

    A highly-extensible, open-source Node.js framework that enables you to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. Connect to multiple data sources, write business logic in Node.js, glue on top of your existing services and data, connect using JS, iOS & Android SDKs. ...

  • hapi
    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
    ExpressJS

    Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications. ...

  • Django
    Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. ...

  • Node.js
    Node.js

    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. ...

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PROS OF ADONISJS
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    Laravel like
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    Easy to learn
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    MVC
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    Beautiful code
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    ORM Mapper
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    Service Providers
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    Fast development
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    Easy to understand documentation
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    Typescript
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    Schema migrations
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    Ace command-line tool
CONS OF ADONISJS
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    Small community
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    Real-time
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    Choose any ORM
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    Datastore Agnostic
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    Flexible Plugins
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    Choose Socketio or Primus
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    Easy Rest
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    Isomorphic Services API
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    Open source
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    Scalable
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    Easy to use with Graphql
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    Documentation
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    Service-oriented architecture
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    Data-driven APIs
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    Uses express, will support other options soon
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    Advanced Composable Service Middleware called holds
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    Quasar Framework FeathersJS Node.js Vue.js SendinBlue Zeit Now GitHub

    It was almost too easy to build a complete Feathers Rest API combined with Quasar SSR and reactive form that we are serving through an i-frame within our main site for serving our newsletter signup and opt-in page. Total time: 15 hrs. Check it out:

    https://quasar.dev/newsletter

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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.

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      ReactQL is a React + GraphQL front-end starter kit. #JSX is a natural way to think about building UI, and it renders to pure #HTML in the browser and on the server, making it trivial to build server-rendered Single Page Apps. GraphQL via Apollo was chosen for the data layer; #GraphQL makes it simple to request just the data your app needs, and #Apollo takes care of communicating with your API (written in any language; doesn't have to be JavaScript!), caching, and rendering to #React.

      ReactQL is written in TypeScript to provide full types/Intellisense, and pick up hard-to-diagnose goofs that might later show up at runtime. React makes heavy use of Webpack 4 to handle transforming your code to an optimised client-side bundle, and in throws back just enough code needed for the initial render, while seamlessly handling import statements asynchronously as needed, making the payload your user downloads ultimately much smaller than trying to do it by hand.

      React Helmet was chosen to handle <head> content, because it works universally, making it easy to throw back the correct <title> and other tags on the initial render, as well as inject new tags for subsequent client-side views.

      styled-components, Sass, Less and PostCSS were added to give developers a choice of whether to build styles purely in React / JavaScript, or whether to defer to a #css #preprocessor. This is especially useful for interop with UI frameworks like Bootstrap, Semantic UI, Foundation, etc - ReactQL lets you mix and match #css and renders to both a static .css file during bundling as well as generates per-page <style> tags when using #StyledComponents.

      React Router handles routing, because it works both on the server and in the client. ReactQL customises it further by capturing non-200 responses on the server, redirecting or throwing back custom 404 pages as needed.

      Koa is the web server that handles all incoming HTTP requests, because it's fast (TTFB < 5ms, even after fully rendering React), and its natively #async, making it easy to async/await inside routes and middleware.

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      Antonio Kobashikawa
      Web developer | Blogger | Freelancer at Rulo Kobashikawa · | 6 upvotes · 240K views

      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.

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      LoopBack

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      PROS OF LOOPBACK
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        Need a nodejs ReST-API, DB, AAA, Swagger? Then loopback
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        Easy Database Migration
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        Code generator
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        The future of API's
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        GraphQL
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        Typescript
      CONS OF LOOPBACK
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        Community is slow
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      Priit Kaasik
      CTO at Katana Cloud Inventory · | 8 upvotes · 472.5K views

      We undertook the task of building a manufacturing ERP for small branded manufacturers. We needed to build a lot, fast with a small team, and have clear focus on product delivery. We chose JavaScript / Node.js ( React + LoopBack full stack) , Heroku and Heroku Postgres (also Heroku Redis ) . This decision has guided us to picking other key technologies. It has granted us high pace of product delivery and service availability while operating with a small team.

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      We have an existing (Apis only) Rails backend, that by default follows the MVC pattern, (at peaks of 700 requests a second). I am tasked with making the same (read-heavy) application in any JavaScript framework. I was advised to follow the MVC structure. So I am considering these 3 ( Sails.js, LoopBack, NestJS). I get that sails is closest to rails, but that's not particularly a priority.

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        Configuration
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        Modularization
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      CONS OF HAPI
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        Tim Nolet

        Heroku Docker GitHub Node.js hapi Vue.js AWS Lambda Amazon S3 PostgreSQL Knex.js Checkly is a fairly young company and we're still working hard to find the correct mix of product features, price and audience.

        We are focussed on tech B2B, but I always wanted to serve solo developers too. So I decided to make a $7 plan.

        Why $7? Simply put, it seems to be a sweet spot for tech companies: Heroku, Docker, Github, Appoptics (Librato) all offer $7 plans. They must have done a ton of research into this, so why not piggy back that and try it out.

        Enough biz talk, onto tech. The challenges were:

        • Slice of a portion of the functionality so a $7 plan is still profitable. We call this the "plan limits"
        • Update API and back end services to handle and enforce plan limits.
        • Update the UI to kindly state plan limits are in effect on some part of the UI.
        • Update the pricing page to reflect all changes.
        • Keep the actual processing backend, storage and API's as untouched as possible.

        In essence, we went from strictly volume based pricing to value based pricing. Here come the technical steps & decisions we made to get there.

        1. We updated our PostgreSQL schema so plans now have an array of "features". These are string constants that represent feature toggles.
        2. The Vue.js frontend reads these from the vuex store on login.
        3. Based on these values, the UI has simple v-if statements to either just show the feature or show a friendly "please upgrade" button.
        4. The hapi API has a hook on each relevant API endpoint that checks whether a user's plan has the feature enabled, or not.

        Side note: We offer 10 SMS messages per month on the developer plan. However, we were not actually counting how many people were sending. We had to update our alerting daemon (that runs on Heroku and triggers SMS messages via AWS SNS) to actually bump a counter.

        What we build is basically feature-toggling based on plan features. It is very extensible for future additions. Our scheduling and storage backend that actually runs users' monitoring requests (AWS Lambda) and stores the results (S3 and Postgres) has no knowledge of all of this and remained unchanged.

        Hope this helps anyone building out their SaaS and is in a similar situation.

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        Tim Nolet

        JavaScript Node.js hapi Vue.js Swagger UI Slate

        Two weeks ago we released the public API for Checkly. We already had an API that was serving our frontend Vue.js app. We decided to create an new set of API endpoints and not reuse the already existing one. The blog post linked below details what parts we needed to refactor, what parts we added and how we handled generating API documentation. More specifically, the post dives into:

        • Refactoring the existing Hapi.js based API
        • API key based authentication
        • Refactoring models with Objection.js
        • Validating plan limits
        • Generating Swagger & Slate based documentation
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        ExpressJS

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          High performance
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          Robust routing
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          Middlewares
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          Open source
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          Great community
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          Hybrid web applications
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          Well documented
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          Rapid development
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          Sinatra inspired
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          Socket connection
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          Isomorphic js.. superfast and easy
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          Light weight
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          Resource available for learning
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          Npm
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          Event loop
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          Not python
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          Overrated
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          No multithreading
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          Javascript
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          Not fast
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          Easily Insecure for Novices

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        Anurag Maurya

        Needs advice on code coverage tool in Node.js/ExpressJS with External API Testing Framework

        Hello community,

        I have a web application with the backend developed using Node.js and Express.js. The backend server is in one directory, and I have a separate API testing framework, made using SuperTest, Mocha, and Chai, in another directory. The testing framework pings the API, retrieves responses, and performs validations.

        I'm currently looking for a code coverage tool that can accurately measure the code coverage of my backend code when triggered by the API testing framework. I've tried using Istanbul and NYC with instrumented code, but the results are not as expected.

        Could you please recommend a reliable code coverage tool or suggest an approach to effectively measure the code coverage of my Node.js/Express.js backend code in this setup?

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        Collins Ogbuzuru
        Front-end dev at Evolve credit · | 34 upvotes · 219.9K views

        Your tech stack is solid for building a real-time messaging project.

        React and React Native are excellent choices for the frontend, especially if you want to have both web and mobile versions of your application share code.

        ExpressJS is an unopinionated framework that affords you the flexibility to use it's features at your term, which is a good start. However, I would recommend you explore Sails.js as well. Sails.js is built on top of Express.js and it provides additional features out of the box, especially the Websocket integration that your project requires.

        Don't forget to set up Graphql codegen, this would improve your dev experience (Add Typescript, if you can too).

        I don't know much about databases but you might want to consider using NO-SQL. I used Firebase real-time db and aws dynamo db on a few of my personal projects and I love they're easy to work with and offer more flexibility for a chat application.

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          Easy to learn
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          Mvc
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          Beautiful code
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          Elegant
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          Free
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          Great packages
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          Great libraries
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          Comes with auth and crud admin panel
        • 79
          Restful
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          Powerful
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          Great documentation
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          Great for web
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          Python
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          Great orm
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          Great for api
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          All included
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          Fast
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          Web Apps
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          Clean
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          Easy setup
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          Used by top startups
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          Sexy
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          ORM
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          The Django community
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          Allows for very rapid development with great libraries
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          Convention over configuration
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          King of backend world
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          Full stack
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          Great MVC and templating engine
        • 8
          Mvt
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          Fast prototyping
        • 7
          Its elegant and practical
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          Easy to develop end to end AI Models
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          Batteries included
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          Cross-Platform
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          Very quick to get something up and running
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          Have not found anything that it can't do
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          Zero code burden to change databases
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          Great peformance
        • 5
          Python community
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          Easy Structure , useful inbuilt library
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          Easy to use
        • 4
          Map
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          Easy to change database manager
        • 4
          Full-Text Search
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          Just the right level of abstraction
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          Many libraries
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          Modular
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          Easy
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          Scaffold
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          Node js
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          Built in common security
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          Great default admin panel
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          Scalable
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          Gigante ta
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          Cons
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        CONS OF DJANGO
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          Underpowered templating
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          Autoreload restarts whole server
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          Underpowered ORM
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          URL dispatcher ignores HTTP method
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          Internal subcomponents coupling
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          Not nodejs
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          Configuration hell
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          Admin
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          Not as clean and nice documentation like Laravel
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          Python
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          Not typed
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          Bloated admin panel included
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          Overwhelming folder structure
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          InEffective Multithreading
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        Dmitry Mukhin
        Engineer at Uploadcare · | 25 upvotes · 2.6M views

        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.

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        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?

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          Great for realtime apps
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          Great for command line utilities
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          Websockets
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          Node Modules
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          Uber Simple
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          Great modularity
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          Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
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          Easy to start
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          Great for Data Streaming
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          Realtime
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          Awesome
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          Non blocking IO
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          Can be used as a proxy
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          High performance, open source, scalable
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          Non-blocking and modular
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          Easy and Fun
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          Easy and powerful
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          Future of BackEnd
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          Same lang as AngularJS
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          Fullstack
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          Fast
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          Scalability
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          Cross platform
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          Simple
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          Mean Stack
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          Great for webapps
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          Easy concurrency
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          Typescript
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          Fast, simple code and async
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          Friendly
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          Control everything
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          Its amazingly fast and scalable
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          Easy to use and fast and goes well with JSONdb's
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          Great speed
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          Fast development
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          It's fast
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          Easy to use
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          Isomorphic coolness
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          Great community
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          Not Python
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          Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
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          TypeScript Support
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          Blazing fast
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          Performant and fast prototyping
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          Easy to learn
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          Easy
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          Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
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          One language, end-to-end
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          Less boilerplate code
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          Npm i ape-updating
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          Event Driven
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          Creat for apis
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        CONS OF NODE.JS
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          Bound to a single CPU
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          New framework every day
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          Lots of terrible examples on the internet
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          Asynchronous programming is the worst
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          Callback
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          Javascript
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          Dependency hell
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          Dependency based on GitHub
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          Low computational power
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          Very very Slow
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          Can block whole server easily
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          Callback functions may not fire on expected sequence
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          Breaking updates
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          Unstable
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          Unneeded over complication
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          No standard approach
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          Bad transitive dependency management
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        I just finished the very first version of my new hobby project: #MovieGeeks. It is a minimalist online movie catalog for you to save the movies you want to see and for rating the movies you already saw. This is just the beginning as I am planning to add more features on the lines of sharing and discovery

        For the #BackEnd I decided to use Node.js , GraphQL and MongoDB:

        1. Node.js has a huge community so it will always be a safe choice in terms of libraries and finding solutions to problems you may have

        2. GraphQL because I needed to improve my skills with it and because I was never comfortable with the usual REST approach. I believe GraphQL is a better option as it feels more natural to write apis, it improves the development velocity, by definition it fixes the over-fetching and under-fetching problem that is so common on REST apis, and on top of that, the community is getting bigger and bigger.

        3. MongoDB was my choice for the database as I already have a lot of experience working on it and because, despite of some bad reputation it has acquired in the last months, I still believe it is a powerful database for at least a very long list of use cases such as the one I needed for my website

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        Nick Rockwell
        SVP, Engineering at Fastly · | 46 upvotes · 3.8M views

        When I joined NYT there was already broad dissatisfaction with the LAMP (Linux Apache HTTP Server MySQL PHP) Stack and the front end framework, in particular. So, I wasn't passing judgment on it. I mean, LAMP's fine, you can do good work in LAMP. It's a little dated at this point, but it's not ... I didn't want to rip it out for its own sake, but everyone else was like, "We don't like this, it's really inflexible." And I remember from being outside the company when that was called MIT FIVE when it had launched. And been observing it from the outside, and I was like, you guys took so long to do that and you did it so carefully, and yet you're not happy with your decisions. Why is that? That was more the impetus. If we're going to do this again, how are we going to do it in a way that we're gonna get a better result?

        So we're moving quickly away from LAMP, I would say. So, right now, the new front end is React based and using Apollo. And we've been in a long, protracted, gradual rollout of the core experiences.

        React is now talking to GraphQL as a primary API. There's a Node.js back end, to the front end, which is mainly for server-side rendering, as well.

        Behind there, the main repository for the GraphQL server is a big table repository, that we call Bodega because it's a convenience store. And that reads off of a Kafka pipeline.

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