Express Gateway vs goa

Express Gateway vs goa: What are the differences?

Developers describe Express Gateway as "An open source API gateway for microservices built on Express.js". A cloud-native microservices gateway completely configurable and extensible through JavaScript/Node.js built for ALL platforms and languages Enterprise features are FREE thanks to the power of 3K+ ExpressJS battle hardened modules.. On the other hand, goa is detailed as "A design driven approach for building microservices in Go". goa is a framework for building microservices in Go using a unique design-first approach. goa provides a novel approach for developing microservices that saves time when working on independent services and helps with keeping the overall system consistent.

Express Gateway and goa can be categorized as "Microservices" tools.

Some of the features offered by Express Gateway are:

• Authentication
• Authorization
• API Management

On the other hand, goa provides the following key features:

• Creating a service with goa starts with the design. The goa DSL lets you describe the global properties, types and endpoints that make up the service API. The apidsl package docs provides a quick reference to all the DSL functions.
• Once the design of the API is in place goagen generates the corresponding data structures, validation code and handlers. Handlers are defined as interface methods. Implementing the service is thus as simple as implementing the generated interfaces.
• The best part about the goa DSL is that the engine is completely decoupled. Plugins can implement custom DSLs to extend the concepts described in the design. Plugins can also generate arbitrary outputs.

goa is an open source tool with 3.46K GitHub stars and 390 GitHub forks. Here's a link to goa's open source repository on GitHub.