Restify VS Nest

Compare Restify vs Nest and see what are their differences.

Restify

The future of Node.js REST development (by restify)

Nest

A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript šŸš€ (by nestjs)
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Restify Nest
8 311
10,697 63,607
0.1% 1.7%
5.6 9.9
2 months ago 3 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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Restify

Posts with mentions or reviews of Restify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-31.
  • Stop using express.js
    6 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2023
    Restify & Fastify Hapi
  • Node JS Microservice Frameworks for Developing Scalable Web Apps.
    12 projects | /r/node | 22 Mar 2023
    Restify ā€“ Optimized NodeJS Microservice Framework
  • Preact Releases Signals
    6 projects | dev.to | 9 Sep 2022
    We've seen this framework forking happen a lot as good ideas are remixed like Aurelia via Angular, Derw via Elm, Restify via Express, and Spring Boot via Spring to name a few. It's interesting to me this obsession with performance that Preact has with their ability to provide a simple API. That said, I am in no way convinced this'll solve the architecture problem. Without at least guidance, or more importantly, a framework + docs on how to utilize Signals at scale, you'll just end up with a random mess. Still, it's awesome how far they've come, and it's neat to see them still innovating years later.
  • 10 Best Node.js Framework in 2021
    12 projects | dev.to | 2 Dec 2021
    Restify.js: Future of Node.js REST development
  • how to deploy a graphQL server with docker and fly
    8 projects | dev.to | 15 Sep 2021
    Express GraphQL is a library for building production ready GraphQL HTTP middleware. Despite the emphasis on Express in the repo name, you can create a GraphQL HTTP server with any HTTP web framework that supports connect styled middleware. This includes Connect itself, Express and Restify.
  • What is your current stack?
    20 projects | /r/node | 3 Apr 2021
    Is express still the go-to HTTP server? How are hapi and restify doing? Has koa ever really picked up? Is there any new cool stuff to watch out for (fastify, anyone)?
  • Are you using promises and async / await safely in Node.js?
    5 projects | dev.to | 9 Mar 2021
    Restify - No native support yet. Support merged mid-2020, scheduled for a v9 release.

Nest

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nest. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Restify and Nest you can also consider the following projects:

SailsJS - Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js

Koa - Expressive middleware for node.js using ES2017 async functions

loopback-next - LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.

feathers - The API and real-time application framework

Ts.ED - :triangular_ruler: Ts.ED is a Node.js and TypeScript framework on top of Express to write your application with TypeScript (or ES6). It provides a lot of decorators and guideline to make your code more readable and less error-prone. ā­ļø Star to support our work!

Moleculer - :rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js

Django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

tsoa - Build OpenAPI-compliant REST APIs using TypeScript and Node

Hapi - The Simple, Secure Framework Developers Trust

Meteor JS - Meteor, the JavaScript App Platform

InversifyJS - A powerful and lightweight inversion of control container for JavaScript & Node.js apps powered by TypeScript.

trpc - šŸ§™ā€ā™€ļø Move Fast and Break Nothing. End-to-end typesafe APIs made easy.