feathers VS SailsJS

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.

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)

SailsJS

Sails.js on the other hand is a framework for Node.js. It does offer a tool to bootstrap a project though.

Sails.js, sometimes known as Sails, is a real-time MVC framework for developing enterprise-ready Node.js applications.

I have used sailsjs in the past.

Node based Here's a list of Node Frameworks. Most people go for Express, but it's very minimal. If you want something more complete and opinionated, you can check out AdonisJS, NestJS or Sails. They're mostly working with TypeScript, but depending on your knowledge of JS the switch might be easy enough.

Also, there is a project called Sails.js if you're explicitly looking for a complete MVC framework in JS. I will say that I have not seen it used by any of the teams I've been on/around that work in JS, so it is a much less popular choice than building something starting with the simpler building blocks mentioned above.

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.

I started my career with Rails, then some frontend, and now work a full-time job in Node. Agree with most or all of these points - full-stack javascript is kind of a mess and hasn't really progressed despite individual tools having done so. I think https://sailsjs.com set out to solve a lot of these issues many years ago, by trying to be a JavaScript version of Rails. I'm not sure if they ever reached "feature-parity" though.