NestJS vs TurboGears: What are the differences?
Developers describe NestJS as "A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications by @kammysliwiec". Nest is a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications. It uses progressive JavaScript, is built with TypeScript (preserves compatibility with pure JavaScript) and combines elements of OOP (Object Oriented Programming), FP (Functional Programming), and FRP (Functional Reactive Programming)
Under the hood, Nest makes use of Express, but also, provides compatibility with a wide range of other libraries, like e.g. Fastify, allowing for easy use of the myriad third-party plugins which are available.. On the other hand, TurboGears is detailed as "The Web Framework that scales with you". It is a Python web application framework consisting of several WSGI components such as WebOb, SQLAlchemy, Genshi and Repoze. It is built on top of the experience of several next generation web frameworks including TurboGears1 (of course), Django, and Rails.
NestJS and TurboGears can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Some of the features offered by NestJS are:
- Extensible - Gives you true flexibility by allowing use of any other libraries thanks to modular architecture.
- Versatile - An adaptable ecosystem that is a fully-fledged backbone for all kinds of server-side applications.
- Progressive - Takes advantage of latest JavaScript features, bringing design patterns and mature solutions to node.js world.
On the other hand, TurboGears provides the following key features:
- Rapid Web Application development
- Data Persistance
- Transaction manager to help with multi-dababase deployments
NestJS is an open source tool with 18.4K GitHub stars and 1.32K GitHub forks. Here's a link to NestJS's open source repository on GitHub.
