13 Node.js Frameworks to Build Web APIs

13 Node.js Frameworks to Build Web APIs

Node.js is one of the most commonly used technologies in the web space. According to the StackOverflow 2017 survey, 47.1% of respondents who utilized frameworks and libraries utilized Node.js as a primary technology.

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A full-stack JavaScript platform for developing modern web and mobile applications

Meteor is a full-stack, open-source framework and platform that aims to offer “a key set of technologies for building connected-client reactive applications, a build tool, and a curated set of packages from the Node.js and general JavaScript community”. Meteor is JavaScript-centric, and touts the benefit of using a singular language in JavaScript throughout all environments. Arguably, while this can be limiting, it can also negate cross-language issues that developers can run into in modern multi-device development.

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A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services

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One of the main selling points with Moleculer, a selling point that is in fact proudly featured on their documentation, is that Moleculer is fault tolerant, and includes a load balancer and circuit breaker. This is a great addition for a Node.js framework, and is especially necessary given the ever-increasing traffic demands of the modern web.

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A smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.

Koa is a server-side web development framework built upon Node.js with the idea of leveraging generators. This concept allows the quick generation of web applications and REST APIs – at least in theory. The solution is quite modular, almost at the level of Hapi.js, and is extensible in a variety of unique ways.

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