Stacks5.3K

Jobs132

Votes1.3K

Flask

Stacks3.6K

Jobs671

Votes1.1K

Tastypie

Stacks27

Jobs7

Votes4

What is 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.

What is Flask?

Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.

What is Tastypie?

Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Django. It provides a convenient, yet powerful and highly customizable abstraction for creating REST-style interfaces.

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Why do developers choose ExpressJS?

Why do developers choose Flask?

Why do developers choose Tastypie?

323
Simple
297
Node.js
209
Javascript
162
High performance
133
Robust routing
55
Open source
50
Middlewares

262
Lightweight
224
Python
184
Minimal
123
Open source
84
Documentation
49
Easy to use
41
Well designed

2
Good in Django
1
Customizable
1
Fast development

What are the cons of using ExpressJS?

What are the cons of using Flask?

What are the cons of using Tastypie?

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Not python

2
Context

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What companies use ExpressJS?

What companies use Flask?

What companies use Tastypie?

What are some alternatives to ExpressJS, Flask, and Tastypie?

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.

Django

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

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.

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What tools integrate with ExpressJS?

What tools integrate with Flask?

What tools integrate with Tastypie?

Node.js

Python

Django

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Reviews of ExpressJS, Flask, and Tastypie

Michael Herman

Software Engineer at TestDriven Labs

Review of

Flask

Flask is a light, yet powerful Python web framework perfect for quickly building smaller web applications. It's a "micro-framework" that's easy to learn and simple to use, so it's perfect for those new to web development as well as those looking to rapidly develop a web application.

How developers use ExpressJS, Flask, and Tastypie

Cloudcraft uses

ExpressJS

Express.js is the workhorse of the Cloudcraft.co backend. It's not the most exciting part of a stack, but it works, is very well documented, and you can find a plugin for almost everything you could possibly want. We also carefully evaluated Koa.js, but decided not to go down this route: fewer plugins, less documentation & answers online. I'm also not personally convinced by the generators yield syntax at all. ES7 async functions looks like a much better bet, and with Promises and Babel I can have that already today.

Volkan Özçelik uses

ExpressJS

I use express.js for nightly.zerotoherojs.com and dojo.zerotoherojs.com web apps.

Express is well-known, lightweight, works out-of-the-box, has great middleware support and has minimal learning curve.

It is the best framework to start developing a general Node.js web app.

Jack Littleton uses

Flask

I use Flask for times when I need to create a REST API that interfaces with other Python code, or there is no specific reason why I'd want to use Node.JS. I prefer Flask because of its small learning curve, allowing me to get started coding as quickly as possible

Cloudify uses

Flask

This lightweight web framework enables quick REST API development while enabling easy clustering, and the usage of multiple worker processes required to scale the REST API service to meet high volume requirements.

Kent Steiner uses

ExpressJS

I'm fluent in ExpressJS, but over the past two years I have moved to HapiJS. Similar results, but I find Hapi to be more full-featured towards my app, api and service needs. I can operate confidently in both.

Promethean TV uses

ExpressJS

PrometheanTV utilizes the ExpressJS web application framework to deploy various web applications and services including the Broadcast Center Tool, our video embed service, and our REST API.

Merge In uses

ExpressJS

We rely on ExpressJS to serve our content simply, easily, and effectively, without the bloat-ware. Big thanks to StrongLoop for supporting this package.