Express VS Nest

Compare Express vs Nest and see what are their differences.

Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. (by expressjs)

Nest

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript šŸš€ (by nestjs)
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Express Nest
671 312
63,725 64,099
0.7% 1.6%
7.6 9.9
1 day ago 4 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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Express

Posts with mentions or reviews of Express. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.

Nest

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Express and Nest you can also consider the following projects:

Next.js - The React Framework

SailsJS - Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

Koa - Expressive middleware for node.js using ES2017 async functions

Nuxt.js - Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]

loopback-next - LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.

AdonisJs Application

feathers - The API and real-time application framework

Restify - The future of Node.js REST development

Ts.ED - :triangular_ruler: Ts.ED is a Node.js and TypeScript framework on top of Express to write your application with TypeScript (or ES6). It provides a lot of decorators and guideline to make your code more readable and less error-prone. ā­ļø Star to support our work!

fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

Moleculer - :rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js