Express VS feathers

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If you’re setting up a Node.js server, your main options are mostly the built-in http module delivered by Node.js itself or the minimal Express framework. However, there’s a third option you can choose from — Fastify. Fastify is a very actively maintained project for setting up a web server. What makes Fastify shine compared to other options is its highly performant framework being able to handle up to 30,000 requests per second! You can check out the benchmarks to get a better idea of the possible traffic load. To sweeten the deal even more, Fastify supports TypeScript and logging right out of the box. So let’s get started with this web framework and see how we can set up a simple project with Fastify. 🧑‍💻

In this tutorial, we will see how we can create an express app from scratch and deploy it to vercel.

[express]:

You have some familiarity with the Express framework. If not, familiarize yourself with the basics using this example application.

If you need to send them a fully-runnable server, something that can be executed and that can listen for incoming HTTP requests, then you probably want something like Express.js, which is a Node HTTP server framework. Serverside JS isn't like PHP in that the actual HTTP request/response flow is abstracted away from you; you have to actually handle it yourself.

Express

Node.js (express.js and nest.js)

> in fact we all use metaprogramming on a regular basis

No, I write Go code. Everything is very explicit.

Magic is not derogatory; it simply denotes that often the developer using such constructs does not fully understand the implications.

A prime example of this is Feathers[1], a node framework that manages to be insecure by default to enable fast prototyping. I've seen swiss cheese results of using it more often than the opposite.

[1]: https://feathersjs.com/

Feathers is a lightweight web framework for developing real-time apps and REST APIs in JavaScript or TypeScript.

Bonus: Another example of unwanted routes are default routes like those available in Sails and Feathers. Fortunately Express only has a default error and 404 handlers which we will cover in the following section.

Depends on what you're aiming for. For an API that will not be very flexible, its https://strapi.io/ may be good. https://feathersjs.com/ is good if you're looking for something flexible. If you are looking for more flexibility, you should write from scratch.

I deeply enjoy using feathers.js (https://feathersjs.com/) with Feathers-Vuex (https://vuex.feathersjs.com/). There's a CLI tool that gets you up and running fast: https://github.com/feathersjs/cli

At the time of writing, the project has almost 14k stars on GitHub and 26k weekly downloads on npm. Feathers also includes an excellent documentation and is well known for being lightweight and easy to integrate with different databases.

The Feathers framework uses the Socket.IO module so that you receive and give updates in real-time. It also gives you control over your data through sockets, flexible plugins, and a RESTful API and resources.

Feathers - Build prototypes in minutes,

Its always best to work with the stack you are most familiar with. So for me that would

1. FeathersJS for backend [1]

2. Postgres DB

3. Angular for front end + bootstrap

4. Postmark for transactional email (for new signup email verification, forgot password, 2-factor login) [2]

5. Digital Ocean for VPS

6. Ansible for deploying everything

7. Namecheap for domain

8. DNS configuration done on Digital Ocean

Typescript for both Angular and FeathersJS

I've done this a few times and all together it would take me about 3 - 5 hours.

[1] https://feathersjs.com/

GitHub stars: 13515(github.com)