Koa vs Nameko Comparison | StackShare

Overview

Koa

Stacks727

Followers483

Votes12

GitHub Stars35.7K

Forks3.2K

Nameko

Stacks20

Followers79

Votes0

GitHub Stars4.8K

Forks468

Koa vs Nameko: What are the differences?

Developers describe Koa as "Next generation web framework for node.js". 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. On the other hand, Nameko is detailed as "Python microservices framework". Python microservices framework that leverages AMQP for RPC. It supports asynchronous and synchronous events.

Koa and Nameko can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Koa are:

Provides 3 different kinds of functions as middleware
common function
async function

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

Focus on business logic
Distributed and scalable
Extensible

Koa and Nameko are both open source tools. It seems that Koa with 27K GitHub stars and 2.49K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Nameko with 2.98K GitHub stars and 290 GitHub forks.

Advice on Koa, Nameko

Girish

Software Engineer at FireVisor Systems

Apr 17, 2020

Needs adviceon

Python

Nameko

RabbitMQ

Which is the best Python framework for microservices?

We are using Nameko for building microservices in Python. The things we really like are dependency injection and the ease with which one can expose endpoints via RPC over RabbitMQ. We are planning to try a tool that helps us write polyglot microservices and nameko is not super compatible with it. Also, we are a bit worried about the not so good community support from nameko and looking for a python alternate to write microservices.

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Detailed Comparison

Koa	Nameko
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.	Python microservices framework that leverages AMQP for RPC. It supports asynchronous and synchronous events.
Provides 3 different kinds of functions as middleware; common function; async function; generator function	Focus on business logic; Distributed and scalable; Extensible
Statistics
GitHub Stars 35.7K	GitHub Stars 4.8K
GitHub Forks 3.2K	GitHub Forks 468
Stacks 727	Stacks 20
Followers 483	Followers 79
Votes 12	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 6 Async/Await 5 JavaScript 1 REST API	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Node.js	Django Slack Python Redis Sentry SQLAlchemy

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