Mojo.js is a port of Perl's Mojolicious to TypeScript

• mojo.js

  15 474 7.9 JavaScript

  :unicorn: The Mojolicious real-time web framework for Node.js

  

Express middleware support is on the planned feature list for 2.0 and beyond. Could also be implemented as a 3rd party plugin using the existing hook API though. https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo.js/issues/66

• mojo

  51 2,654 7.9 Perl

  :sparkles: Mojolicious - Perl real-time web framework (by mojolicious)

  

The Mojolicious homepage https://mojolicious.org actually looks almost like the Mojo.js homepage (or the other way round). So much that I first suspected some kind of parody until I realized they were indeed the same people.

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• Express

  678 63,824 8.3 JavaScript

  Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

  

It has been interesting watching this develop, if for no other reason that Express is somewhat stuck after TJ left to make koa[0] and hasn't changed much since 2014. Express 5 has had no commits for 9 months - it's not dead, but it's not exactly thriving either. While there are alternatives to Express, none seem to have huge amounts of traction or do far more than a backend framework (nextjs, sveltekit), so maybe there is room for another framework.

I'll never forget seeing this tweet[1] - what I considered a core pillar of the perl community discovered that after a short period of familiarization, a perl developer of many years could write code that is many times faster just by switching from perl to js. No deep voodoo, no special tricks - just write code in JS and handle 3x as many reqs/s. I'm glad to see that the rest of the mojo ecosystem is coming along - Minion is a really nice, simple job queue that can piggyback on your existing postgres database without depending on redis or anything. Would be awesome to see a dynamodb backend someday. Hmmm.

Unfortunately I'm not sure who the target market is - a typescript web framework selling itself as "Perl-grade" anything is not a good look for 99% of JS/TS devs. Maybe it's positioning itself as the logical migration path for companies moving away from perl?

[0]https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844

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