feathers VS Koa

Feathers (https://feathersjs.com/) ticks a lot of your boxes.

FeathersJS works pretty well for realtime usecases: https://feathersjs.com/

And there I was, thinking for a split-second that Feathers[1] would finally get the recognition it deserves ;-)

[1] https://feathersjs.com/

NestJs 's typescript support is just stellar since it is a pure typescript project from the ground up. Some missing frameworks in your list - Hapi - feathers - adonisJs - sailsjs (something about this framework never ticked, typescript is a clear after thought compared to the others in the list)

FeathersJS

Github repo: https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers License: MIT Github stars: 14000

Im building with featherjs[0] right now and I love it. Jwt, user handling, routing, and (most notably to me) real-time functionality is all built in. Probably the most rails-like backend framework I’ve worked with in Node so far.

[0] https://feathersjs.com/

You might take a look at a framework that already includes user authentication like Feathers.js. The Getting Started Guide walks you through creating a simple real-time chat app with user authentication. And the final chat app code is on GitHub here.

Backend is more tricky. - RESTful APIs I prefer Koajs - For a RPC/microsevice, I have only used gRPC - For a CLI, yargs and inquirer

There are lot of different frameworks out there. If you learn one, there is no guarantee that the next job you find will use the same. For example if you learn Express and the next one used Koa or Nest.

Koa.js is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application infrastruc­ture, which provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applica­tions. It is an open-source framework developed and maintained by the creators of Express.js, the most popular web framework for Node.js.

Speaking of which... there's a long-standing issue with express when it comes to async route handlers. There's backstory to this is complicated and controversial, but the tl;dr: is that (in my humble, and very controversial, opinion) you can use express-async-errors as a workaround hack for legacy projects, but if you're starting a new project you should avoid Express and switch to Koa instead.

Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. By leveraging async functions, Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware within its core, and it provides an elegant suite of methods that make writing servers fast and enjoyable. site Koa - next-generation web framework for node.js *A Koa Request object is an abstraction on top of the node's vanilla request object, providing additional functionality that…*koajs.com

Vite leverages the browser’s native ESM to parse and compile your code as the browser requests it. Then it serves the source file using a plugin such as Koa (a lightweight Node.js web server) to create a dev server with support for Hot Module Replacement (HMR) for updating served modules and Rollup for production builds.

In today's article we are going to create a GraphQL api using the Koa framework together with the GraphQL Yoga library and Pothos. In addition, we will use Kysely, which is a query builder entirely written in TypeScript.

KoaJS

The test cases for other requests are identical except for the assertion on the status field. Now that we have tests for our requests, let's run them. We'll need to create a backend server that will handle the API requests. You can implement the backend server in any language or framework as long as it is REST compliant, but in this article, we’ll build a simple Node.js server using Koa.