feathers VS Hapi

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)

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In the next version (v5, codename dove) there will be an express-transport and a koa-transport. The koa-transport was [merged earlier this year by daffl](https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers/pull/2315).

Maybe feathersjs is worth to take a look. I started the migration of some internal backends to feathers, coming from plain express and dit not look back. Its a thin service based abstraction layer build on top of express. The next major release will support koa or express under the hood.

This project uses Feathers. An open source web framework for building modern real-time applications.

You could look into https://feathersjs.com/ for server side.

I always used express before never really seeing any reason not to but as I'm preparing the tech stack for this project, I stumbled across AdonisJS, hapi and NestJS all of which I took interest in and now I'm stuck with decision fatigue but not enough time to create a working proof of concept in all of them.

I hacked together something similar to REST assured in mocha using Joi. It was designed to define validation schemas for input (and was originally part of the Hapi framework), but it worked fine for validating json rest responses.

GitHub stars:13426 (github.com)

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It was deprecated a while ago: https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/4111

You have to be more specific than directly asking for a comparison. Hapi team listed their claims on https://hapi.dev/.

Opinionated frameworks usually come with a lot of boilerplate. It makes sense since that's a way of imposing their logic on you. I second Adonis.js suggested by u/pixels0 and would also recommend Hapi.

This amazing framework will help you to build a robust Node.js API. It’s important to know that there are other options to take like Sails, Meteor, Happi, among others. In this case we will use Express which is the most used one but it doesn’t limit you to use other one. You can read the whole Express documentation here

Not only that but their node server framework is open source, incredibly popular (https://hapi.dev/), and even that is considered "slow" compared to its contemporaries.