Moleculer VS feathers

My goto for this kind of task is moleculer: https://moleculer.services/

Fast, battle tested, vue2-like approach, great documentation, good community. The automatic indipendent-scalability as an option is usually the main selling point of these solutions, but honestly I think the real pro is the "composition" approach, which is essential if you want to keep a clean and well-organized codebase. On this regard, I found moleculer pretty great even for large teams.

If you’re using k8s, check out https://moleculer.services and this would likely solve what you’re looking for.

Molecular – Progressive Microservices Framework for Node.js

While you’re delving into microservices, check out Moleculer https://moleculer.services

I almost can’t believe I haven’t seen it mentioned here before, but adding Moleculer into your node project (if it’s clustered/k8s’d) will literally solve many single threaded problems, not to mention tons of other scalability issues. https://moleculer.services/

You could use a framework for this. Have a look at moleculer

I haven't used this, but it seems neat: https://moleculer.services/

Look into Moleculer.

Moleculer already provides an in-house http gateway, but what if you want to use an existing API, and how to maintain decoupled code when creating your gateway? This package solves both. You can create your API, passing in any services you require as dependencies. You can then bind your API to moleculer using the moleculer-universal-gateway.

But there's more to the topic of microservices. Seems like all the conversation focuses on deployment pain. You can build a service with something like Akka or Moleculer where the modules act independently and have some message passing and resilience from each other, but they can still all live in one codebase, one process, and deployed as one unit. It works fine and isn't painful at all. And maybe down the line you decide to split the thing up into multiple processes and multiple deployment units, and that's an easy refactor because the modules are already somewhat separated.

This is just using sqlite under the hood and none of this will scale. Why build your own query builder as well when you could just hook in one of the many ORMs in the NPM ecosystem and add support for 50+ other databases. This also isn't really something you could drop into an existing project very easily. Overall, I'm not impressed.

Here are some other options I prefer:

https://feathersjs.com/

For backend this might help https://feathersjs.com. I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user.

Community stats: Feathers.js has a small but active community with 14.8k stars and 761 forks on GitHub.

The project has gained almost 15k GitHub stars and 26k npm weekly downloads. The Feathers library is widely known for its simplicity and ease of integration with various databases, and it also comes with excellent documentation to help you get started.

Feathers.js - fully fledged backend framework, with almost anything out of the box

Feathers.js

For anything CRUD or that can be modeled as such, I use FeathersJS (https://feathersjs.com/).

Feathers – Realtime Node Microservice Framework