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ExpressJS vs Total.js: What are the differences?
ExpressJS: Sinatra inspired web development framework for node.js -- insanely fast, flexible, and simple. 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; Total.js: Framework for creating rich web sites, web applications, e-commerce and real-time applications. It is a Framework for Node.js platfrom written in pure JavaScript similar to PHP's Laravel or Python's Django or ASP.NET MVC.
ExpressJS and Total.js can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.
Some of the features offered by ExpressJS are:
- Robust routing
- HTTP helpers (redirection, caching, etc)
- View system supporting 14+ template engines
On the other hand, Total.js provides the following key features:
- Super fast development
- Extremely low maintenance costs
- Rock solid stability
ExpressJS and Total.js are both open source tools. ExpressJS with 45.2K GitHub stars and 7.58K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Total.js with 3.97K GitHub stars and 434 GitHub forks.
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Pros of ExpressJS
- Simple378
- Node.js333
- Javascript242
- High performance192
- Robust routing150
- Middlewares71
- Open source70
- Great community57
- Hybrid web applications37
- Well documented13
- Sinatra inspired9
- Rapid development9
- Isomorphic js.. superfast and easy7
- Socket connection5
- Light weight5
- Npm4
- Resource available for learning4
- Event loop3
- Callbacks3
- Data stream2
Pros of Total.js
- Fast5
- Rapid development5
- Great support4
- Low-code tools4
- UI components3
- Npm3
- Prebuild apps3
- Javascript2
- Develooment cloud2
- Open Source2
- Node.js2
- Easy to deploy1
- Resource aviable for learning1
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Cons of ExpressJS
Cons of Total.js
Cons of ExpressJS
- Not python27
- Overrated17
- No multithreading14
- Javascript9
- Not fast5
- Easily Insecure for Novices2
Cons of Total.js
- Lack of source code documentation3
- Poor design2
- Poor community2
- Messes up global namespace and default prototypes2
- Poor design - 4000 line files2
- Developed as "one man show"2
- Memory leaks1
- Heavy relies on setTimeout1
- Prototype polution1
- Re-invented Lodash poorly1
- In-house bundler allows to commint syntax errors1
- In-house WS client (conflicts with rfc6455 spec)1
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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 Total.js?
It is a Framework for Node.js platfrom written in pure JavaScript similar to PHP's Laravel or Python's Django or ASP.NET MVC
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What are some alternatives to ExpressJS and Total.js?
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.
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.