server VS phero

I created Server.js https://serverjs.io/ and still use it. It is a wrapper around express:

- With a bunch of middleware included and pre-configured, like body-parser, cookies, Helmet, etc. All express middleware works with Server.js

- async/await routers as expected: get('/users', async (ctx) => {...}); (ctx inspired by Koa)

- Websockets, where messages behave just as another route: socket('message', async ctx => { ... });

I did that! I hope you are not the person who suffered that from me (did you use Picnic CSS a few years back?). So for a newer project I put some setup code that will look for all code snippets with a specific comment and run that with the code after the comment. For generating the website documentation that test bit can be stripped (though I kept it for now).

Example: https://github.com/franciscop/server/blob/master/docs/docume...

That's one of the reasons that drove me to create Phero: https://phero.dev

I’m one of the authors of Phero. It’s goal is similar to tRPC: fullstack typesafety between servers and clients.

One difference is syntax: Phero leverages the TS compiler api to generate parsers for your backend functions. It will parse input and output or your api, automatically, based on the types you define for your functions. It will generate a declaration file of your api and generate an RPC style client SDK for your frontend. Another difference is that it aims to be more batteries includes.

[1] https://github.com/phero-hq/phero

Comparison: https://phero.dev/docs/comparisons/tRPC

Shameless plug: you could also use https://phero.dev

Long story short: when fetching data, you should be validating the data, before casting it to a type you’re expecting it to be. There are a lot of different approaches for this, but being the go-author my favorite would be Phero (https://phero.dev). With this, you can build your API in typescript as well, automatically generate a client for your frontend to call the API. Phero will make sure all data is correct in runtime, automatically.

For those looking for an alternative: Definitely check out https://phero.dev. As the co-creator I’m totally biased of course, but thanks to its build-step IDE-performance is great 😊👍

What about Phero? https://phero.dev

Can we add Phero to the list? :) https://github.com/phero-hq/phero

You can use Phero. You can use it on your backend and frontend. It basically created a typed API from your backend afaik