[AskJS] How do you do JS on the backend?

• Express

  674 63,771 8.3 JavaScript

  Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

  

You'll want to start with either Node.js and the express NPM library for routing, or Deno and the Oak framework. Node.js is faster and more mature, while Deno has better features and is faster to learn due to its similarity to a browser environment.

• oak

  19 4,994 9.0 TypeScript

  A middleware framework for handling HTTP with Deno, Node, Bun and Cloudflare Workers 🐿️ 🦕

  

You'll want to start with either Node.js and the express NPM library for routing, or Deno and the Oak framework. Node.js is faster and more mature, while Deno has better features and is faster to learn due to its similarity to a browser environment.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• bases

  13 5,625 7.8 TypeScript

  Hosts TSConfigs to extend in a TypeScript app, tuned to a particular runtime environment

  

Typescript for type safety and getting the newest ES features. Check out these tsconfig bases so you don't need to guess at the right node / ES version to target.

• node-express-boilerplate

  12 6,464 4.1 JavaScript

  A boilerplate for building production-ready RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose

This repo has a decent starter project with a good middleware setup and a decent way of structuring the project, but no typescript.

• Nest

  312 64,263 9.9 TypeScript

  A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

  

Alternatively, if you or OP wants more structure, convention and bells and whistles than Express, you can check out https://nestjs.com/.

• Bee-Queue

  6 3,619 8.5 JavaScript

  A simple, fast, robust job/task queue for Node.js, backed by Redis.

  

bee-queue for offloading tasks onto non-web-server machines

• piscina

  14 3,916 8.4 TypeScript

  A fast, efficient Node.js Worker Thread Pool implementation

  

piscina for managing node's worker threads

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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