tsoa VS Hapi

Tsoa is a popular TypeScript framework similar to Goa that you may encounter in the OpenAPI ecosystem. Speakeasy has a tutorial for it, too.

Currently i am using TSOA and loving it, it gives you automatic Open API specs and data validation based on typescript interfaces. I have used Nest on previous projects but I personally don't like the decorators hell that comes with Nest, and raw express/fastify are ok and easy to use but a pain in the ass on big projects to keep swagger, validations, interfaces and DTOs all in sync.

I'm curious if anyone here has played around with or used TSOA (https://github.com/lukeautry/tsoa)?

If you decide to go with Express/Typescript I would definitely check out TSOA. It's a nice way to build backend APIs with auto documentation.

We are using TSOA to generate the docs from the code, works pretty well. https://github.com/lukeautry/tsoa

This is the best project I’ve found to that for that - https://github.com/lukeautry/tsoa. Uses decorators mainly.

If there are other such projects, please share.

Hello, In the last month I built a REST API template in Typescript to quickly bootstrap new projects, I tried to use the most updated modules available, I've also included a "todo" sample just to showcase how all the things work together, the main modules that I've used are: - expressjs + tsoa that allows to easily generate the OpenAPI spec without any additional steps (just declare your controllers via typescript) - class-validator to validate body requests (this is also useful as the OpenAPI will be automatically generated based on the classes that you define) - Jest for testing, I've included also unit and integrations test samples with an in-memory database

Have a look at [TSOA[(https://github.com/lukeautry/tsoa). While far from perfect (I am on the lookout to find a better solution), gets the job done. And generating the entire routing is a pretty neat trick, so that's also that.

tsoa Lighter weight, but also great.

I tend to use hapi (https://hapi.dev) instead of Express if I need to write a quick backend for something these days.

Fastify looks nice too but I haven't used it.

Been burnt by full-stack frameworks in the past (e.g. Meteor) but they can be a good option for some.

Hapi.js commonly referred to as "hapi," is an open-source web application framework for building web and application server systems in Node.js. It was created by Walmart Labs and is designed to provide a flexible and robust foundation for building web applications, APIs, and other networked software.

Restify & Fastify Hapi

Hapi.js: https://hapi.dev/

Hapi – The Simple, Secure Framework Developers Trust

Hapi.js is one of the best Node.js web framework, which is used for developing application program interfaces. Thanks to a strong plugin system Hapi.js, you can fully manage the development process. Hapi.js motivates the devel­oper to focus on the reuse logic instead of spending time building the infrastructure.

does not seem so https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/releases/tag/v21.0.0 (ok, I'm nitpicking on that one)

Joi validator used to be part of hapi but then became a standalone library that you can use everywhere where validation is needed. So for example, here's how username validation can be done: