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: 60,338 | issues: 155 | forks: 10,271

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: 33,793 | issues: 60 | forks: 3,281

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: 26,791 | issues: 77 | forks: 1,971

Hapi

Simple and secure framework

stars: 14,208 | issues: 45 | forks: 1,378

restify

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

stars: 10,587 | issues: 106 | forks: 1,021

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