feathers VS Koa

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.

Philosophically, Koa aims to "fix and replace node", whereas Express "augments node". Koa uses promises and async functions to rid apps of callback hell and simplify error handling. It exposes its own ctx.request and ctx.response objects instead of node's req and res objects.

I started using Koa; it's a web framework from the same team that created Express. I like its simplicity and how the middlewares interact in a stack-like manner.

Koa.js: An Expressive HTTP middleware framework GitHub Popularity: 32K Stars

GitHub stars:31495(github.com)

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// 1. We've setup default error handling (https://github.com/koajs/koa/blob/master/docs/error-handling.md) // 2. We've setup our DB connection with a promise-based API. (https://www.npmjs.com/package/promise-mysql) // 3. We've setup a template engine (https://github.com/koajs/ejs)

Oak is a middleware framework for Deno’s native HTTP server and Deno Deploy. It is influenced by Koa (hence the anagram) and includes a middleware router inspired by @koa/router.

Internally, Strapi is powered by Koajs, and its default database is SQLite, where it persists the content we add to the collections and single-types. We have learned a bit about Strapi. In the next sections, we will learn about relations in database models and establish the relations in Strapi collections.