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.
Koa is a tool in the Microframeworks category of a tech stack.
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What are some alternatives to Koa?
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.
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
It supports both Active Record and Data Mapper patterns, unlike all other JavaScript ORMs currently in existence, which means you can write high quality, loosely coupled, scalable, maintainable applications the most productive way.
Node.js, Egg.js, Lad, PostGraphile, tsoa and 2 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Koa. Here's a list of all 7 tools that integrate with Koa.
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