FeathersJS vs Node.js

Pros of FeathersJS

• 12

  Real-time
• 7

  Choose any ORM
• 7

  Datastore Agnostic
• 6

  Flexible Plugins
• 5

  Choose Socketio or Primus
• 4

  Easy Rest
• 4

  Isomorphic Services API
• 4

  Open source
• 3

  Scalable
• 3

  Easy to use with Graphql
• 3

  Documentation
• 3

  Service-oriented architecture
• 3

  Data-driven APIs
• 3

  Uses express, will support other options soon
• 3

  Advanced Composable Service Middleware called holds

Pros of Node.js

• 1.4K

  Npm
• 1.3K

  Javascript
• 1.1K

  Great libraries
• 1K

  High-performance
• 805

  Open source
• 487

  Great for apis
• 477

  Asynchronous
• 425

  Great community
• 390

  Great for realtime apps
• 296

  Great for command line utilities
• 86

  Websockets
• 84

  Node Modules
• 69

  Uber Simple
• 59

  Great modularity
• 58

  Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
• 42

  Easy to start
• 35

  Great for Data Streaming
• 32

  Realtime
• 28

  Awesome
• 25

  Non blocking IO
• 18

  Can be used as a proxy
• 17

  High performance, open source, scalable
• 16

  Non-blocking and modular
• 15

  Easy and Fun
• 14

  Easy and powerful
• 13

  Future of BackEnd
• 13

  Same lang as AngularJS
• 12

  Fullstack
• 11

  Fast
• 10

  Scalability
• 10

  Cross platform
• 9

  Simple
• 8

  Mean Stack
• 7

  Great for webapps
• 7

  Easy concurrency
• 6

  Typescript
• 6

  Fast, simple code and async
• 6

  React
• 6

  Friendly
• 5

  Control everything
• 5

  Its amazingly fast and scalable
• 5

  Easy to use and fast and goes well with JSONdb's
• 5

  Scalable
• 5

  Great speed
• 5

  Fast development
• 4

  It's fast
• 4

  Easy to use
• 4

  Isomorphic coolness
• 3

  Great community
• 3

  Not Python
• 3

  Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
• 3

  TypeScript Support
• 3

  Blazing fast
• 3

  Performant and fast prototyping
• 3

  Easy to learn
• 3

  Easy
• 3

  Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
• 3

  One language, end-to-end
• 3

  Less boilerplate code
• 2

  Npm i ape-updating
• 2

  Event Driven
• 2

  Lovely
• 1

  Creat for apis
• 0

  Node

Cons of FeathersJS

Cons of Node.js

• 46

  Bound to a single CPU
• 45

  New framework every day
• 40

  Lots of terrible examples on the internet
• 33

  Asynchronous programming is the worst
• 24

  Callback
• 19

  Javascript
• 11

  Dependency hell
• 11

  Dependency based on GitHub
• 10

  Low computational power
• 7

  Very very Slow
• 7

  Can block whole server easily
• 7

  Callback functions may not fire on expected sequence
• 4

  Breaking updates
• 4

  Unstable
• 3

  Unneeded over complication
• 3

  No standard approach
• 1

  Bad transitive dependency management
• 1

  Can't read server session