Backend Frameworks

Backend low-level node frameworks, unopinionated, great for building fast servers, APIs and as a backbone for larger applications.

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Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

stars: 61,970 | issues: 186 | forks: 11,258

Koa

Koa is a web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. By leveraging async functions, Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware within its core, and it provides an elegant suite of methods that make writing servers fast and enjoyable.

stars: 34,359 | issues: 60 | forks: 3,303

Fastify

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is inspired by Hapi and Express

stars: 28,606 | issues: 78 | forks: 2,142

Hapi

Simple and secure framework

stars: 14,360 | issues: 55 | forks: 1,382

restify

A Node.js web service framework optimized for building semantically correct RESTful web services ready for production use at scale

stars: 10,660 | issues: 111 | forks: 1,026

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