Koa vs hapi
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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. | 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. |
| - | Provides 3 different kinds of functions as middleware;
common function; async function; generator function |
Statistics | |
GitHub Stars - | GitHub Stars 35.7K |
GitHub Forks - | GitHub Forks 3.2K |
Stacks 434 | Stacks 812 |
Followers 456 | Followers 483 |
Votes 87 | Votes 12 |
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Lumen
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Slim
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Fastify
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TypeORM
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FeathersJS
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