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Koa
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Generator support from ground up
Using generators (a bleeding edge feature, even for Node.js) would clean up your code from the mess caused by all those callbacks; making your code more manageable.
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Community is relatively small
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Extremely lightweight
Koa is very lightweight with just 550 lines of code.
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Not compatible with express style middleware
Koa uses generators which are not compatible with any other type of Node.js framework middleware.
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async/await keywords are supported and has transcended beyond generator functions
Generators functions are of course a huge plus, but at the time Koa team has transcended generations functions and shifted towards async/await style programming. It has made the Koa best framework available in the market.
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Has no routes separated by HTTP method or URL pattern
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Development team has a proven track record
Koa is developed by the team behind a widely used node.js framework (express.js).
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Wrong Middle ware, security issue
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FeathersJS
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Can sync events between different Node instances
Feather can sync events happening in two different Node processes or even servers in real-time. For example: an event happens in server A, the user connected to server B is instantly notified of that event. This is done through a central Redis or Mongo collection or through a websocket libraries' clustering library.
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Not so widely used
Could be problematic to convince the client use this framework in his/her project.
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Easy REST APIs
Through services, Feathers provides instant CRUD functionality, it also can easily expose a RESTful and real-time API through HTTP/HTTPS and websockets.
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Not very beginner friendly
Although the documentation for Feathers is very good, it still needs some configuration in order to get Feathers up for developing something with it.
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Can be integrated in an existing ExpressJS project
Since Feathers itself is built on top of Express (it's a thin wrapper over socket.io, primus and Express) and because of Feathers' highly modular nature, it's very easy to integrate Feathers in an existing Express project.
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Plug-in any feature you need
Feathers makes extensive use of modules (which are called Feathers services). These services work like ExpressJS middleware and can be used with app.use('/path', serviceObject). Services help developers keep their applications modular and as minimal as possible, without any unnecessary libraries or bloat.
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Support for different socket transports
FeatherJS uses primus which is a universal wrapper for real-time frameworks. Through primus you can easily choose which socket transport you want to use.
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Express.js
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Setting up is very easy
Setting up a new Express project is very easy. It consists of installing a handful of libraries through NPM run a single npm install and everything is ready to go.
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No single recommended way of doing something
Express considers itself to be a "minimalistic unopinionated framework", it basically lets the developer determine how their project will be organized. On one hand, this gives anyone terrific power and flexibility to use any library they want for a certain task and to organize their project structure however they want. But on the other hand, there's no single recommended way of organizing things, which can be a trap for beginners and experienced developers alike and result in unmaintainable projects.
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Great routing API
Express' extremely powerful routing API allows developers to do tasks ranging from building a REST API to building the routes for a simple web app and then take it to the next level by using route parameters and query strings.
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Great for beginner Node.js programmers
With a little learning curve, it is a good choice for new NodeJS developers to get started quickly. Express boasts great, thorough documentation.
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Express.js is in the Node.js Foundation Incubator Program
Node.js Foundation Announcement here The Node.js Foundation is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems.
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Relatively mature
Being a somewhat old Node.js web app framework and being one of the most widely used frameworks, Express.js has matured quite a lot during all that time. It's more stable than its competitors and a huge community backing it.
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Support for a lot of plugins
Express takes advantage of Node's NPM to distribute and install countless plugins made by third parties which solve almost anything a developer would want to do with Express.
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Has the largest userbase
It's by far the most popular framework for node.
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Great supportive community
Express has a big community with a lot of guides and tutorials written about it by developers that have been using it for quite some time.
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Good Oauth/Facebook integration with connect module
You can easily add oAuth integration/social logins to your next web app without much hassle, using this authentication middleware for connect.
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Has detailed information
Very simple and fast.
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Lightweight
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Massive ecosystem of middleware
If you have not already checked out the Express.js ecosystem of middleware, you should.
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Restify
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Performance is not very optimum
As most of the benchmarks have already revealed, for large inflows of traffic, apps powered by Restify perform below par and are easily beaten by Express.js in terms of load time (in heavy traffic).
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Automatic DTrace support
DTrace helps you with troubleshooting and building robust RESTful applications.
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Specialized for Restful APIs
As the name suggests, Restify is devoted solely to creating an elegant REST API. The API is the core of your site or service, so it makes sense to use a framework that excels at that.
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Meteor
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Easy to learn
Meteor was developed with simplicity in mind, even for beginners who have just started using JavaScript frameworks. One of the reasons that beginners should start with Meteor is that Meteor is a full-stack framework, this way they can get the complete learning experience when it comes to web development (back-end and front-end development), all by using a single platform and a single language. Furthermore, Meteor does not have complex and esoteric concepts that may be hard to grasp by a beginner, it has a clear documentation and well-established coding conventions. There's also a very useful resource for learning Meteor in the form of a book: Discover Meteor, by the authors of many Meteor packages.
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No native SEO support (no server-side rendering)
Meteor does not have support for server-side rendering of views, which is extremely helpful when it comes to SEO. However, there's a third-party server-side rendering package available for download. The Meteor team has also said that server-side rendering is on the roadmap. Though lately Google has announced that the search engine can render JS and CSS files just like modern web browsers
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Full-stack reactivity
Changes in the database will be propagated to all subscribed clients in real time, without you having to write any code.
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Officially supports only MongoDB, which is well-known to have issues with data integrity
MongoDB advertises scalability but only if you don't care about data-integrity. There are other backend options but none of them are officially supported.
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Isomorphic package system
A Meteor package can supply code for both the client and the server, and for mobile (Cordova) apps. For example, an autocomplete package supplies both server code to search a collection, and client code to display the results. The mdg:camera package supports the native camera if the app is built for mobile, or the HTML getUserMedia API to take pictures from the browser.
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Requires reliable network connection
It's common for the front-end and back-end to lose sync if an internet connection is flaky. Even though the connection should be in real-time, if the connection is weak, you may lose that real-time sync. For example, in chat applications you may have to refresh the page to get the latest updated data from the server.
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Built-in security
Meteor takes care of many concerns with it's out-of-the-box security measures.
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Seamless communication between client and server
Meteor is built on top of Node.js and jQuery on the client. Meteor enables the client and server to communicate data seamlessly, in real-time. You don't have to write any REST API or pub/sub code - Meteor takes care of it all automatically for you.
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Integrated front-end library
Meteor uses both your existing front-end library and it's own library called Blaze, which is integrated beautifully in the framework and fulfills the purpose of a true MV* front-end framework.
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Auto reload/refresh (hot code push)
Every time a change in the source file is saved, all connected clients will refresh automatically - browser tabs, mobile apps running in the simulator or on the physical device. Or, deploy a Meteor app (meteor deploy myapp) and all clients, plus all mobile apps with the server set to myapp.meteor.com will automatically reload to use the code changes. This drastically reduces the development cycle for apps in the App Store, where a regular update can wait for one to two weeks before being approved.
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Popular
Meteor is the 10th most starred project on GitHub and has overtaken even Rails.
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Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis
While Meteor only supports MongoDB and Redis natively, MySQL support is on the roadmap, and there are 3rd-party packages that integrate MySQL reactively with Meteor to some extent, such as numtel:mysql. For reactive PostgreSQL support, there is numtel:pg.
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Real-time testing framework
Meteor also has an official testing framework called Velocity. Velocity enables real-time unit testing and integration with Jasmine or Mocha syntax. Tests are automatically run when code is saved and the testing result is indicated by a green or red dot in the upper right corner of the app.
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Includes latency compensation
The client will mimic instant server-side response, and updates automatically if it was different once the information is available.
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Mobile apps from the same code base
Meteor can generate mobile (iOS and Android) apps from the same codebase as the web app, using the Cordova (PhoneGap) library (which brings native device functionality to JavaScript applications). Meteor-generated mobile apps are JavaScript, HTML and CSS bundles that run in a UIWebView (on iOS) or WebView (on Android). Apps can be run locally in the iOS/Android emulator, or on physical devices. You can also publish them to Google Play Store or Apple's App Store. Moreover, these hybrid mobile apps benefit from hot code push, which dramatically accelerates the development cycle.
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Eliminates the need to look for a database to use
Meteor uses MongoDB, eliminating the choice among NoSQL databases. MongoDB is highly scalable - used to store petabytes of data and perform billions of operations daily at eBay, FIFA, Adobe, Craigslist, McAffee, Foursquare and others.
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Gets rid of Node's callbacks
Although Meteor's server side runs on top of Node.js, it manages to avoid callbacks by making use of Fibers.
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Extensive ecosystem
Meteor's package repository called Atmosphere has more than 5000 packages available. What's more is that Meteor can also use into the packages available for the Node ecosystem.
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Powerful performance monitoring tools
Meteor uses Kadira which is an excellent performance monitoring tool for Meteor apps. It profiles CPU and RAM consumption, subscription latency and throughput etc.
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VC-funded open-source
Bright future for Meteor - funded by venture capital and open-source.
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In-app debugging
The community behind Meteor has created a useful application for debugging Meteor apps that will automatically delete collections and display client-side documents, allow you to control subscriptions and lets you modify the documents. Meteor also has great support for server-side debugging, and WebStorm has also released full support for Meteor, including debugging capabilities.
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Hapi
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Backed by a major corporation
Hapi was developed and is still being used by Walmart. Being backed by such a major company means that it will not lose support any time soon and most importantly it's being developed by professionals and that you will always get support for it.
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Requires too much boilerplate
Hapi seems to be made with large applications in mind. The sheer amount of boilerplate code it requires is simply not practical for a small web app. This also means that there are few examples of Hapi applications around for beginners to learn from.
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Consistency across applications
Hapi's philosophy is that configuration is more important than code. This is especially useful for very large teams because it helps developers maintain consistency and reusability throughout their code.
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BSD-3-Clause
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JavaScript
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Adonisjs
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Based on Laravel PHP Framework
If you are already programming in PHP with Laravel, you will have no trouble starting development with Node using Adonis.
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No NOSQL integration
Only used ORM, not ODM.
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Similar to Rails
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Built-in modules for everything
There are built-in modules for everything: Auth, Social Auth, mailing ect
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Easy to learn, especially if you're already familiar with Laravel
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Very good documentation
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Has websocket support out of the box
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Option for full-stack or api standalone implementation
You can choose to use the full-stack version or if you wish to build a RESTful API you can choose to use the api standalone version.
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CaptainCasa Enterprise Client
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Very fast dialogs
Very fast even with many controls. CaptainCasa Enterprise client is much faster than Vaadin when writting similar programs.
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Easy clustering
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Longlife framework
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Fast and powerful
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CDI via EL
Separation of the backend code and the creation of the pages / Injection of the code (CDI) into the pages via expression language (EL).
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High security
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Server development with Java
No javascript is needed, everything is developed on the server with Java. Optimized roundtrip.
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Free use
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Good scalability
In addition to the extremely good performance, which already ensures that the system can be scaled well, clustering of the system is already provided for in the software architecture.
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Mach
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Streaming
Mach has some pretty cool streaming functionalities built directly into it, if your web app provides any audio/video/data streaming features, you can consider using Mach to build it.
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Composability
Since Mach already is asynchronous (stateless) which means your logic is implemented by using promises (then objects); hence your functions are pretty independent and composable.
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Simplicity
No complex layers between plain HTTP requests and the corresponding JS functions invoked. Which in turn means each GET/POST/PUT or any other HTTP request is directly mapped to a Javascript function. Hence leading to a huge increase in performance for your app
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Robust
One of the distinguishing features of Mach is it's robustness, errors won't be terminating your complete app, instead they'll bubble up so you can handle them gracefully.
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Asynchronous
Like most of the Node.js's core, Mach is an asynchronous web framework too. Each response (of a request) can simply be hooked up to a then method so that its result or the reason for failure can be retrieved after the action is complete. If you're wondering what async operations are, here's a pretty good explanation for you
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Derby
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Real time communication between server and client
Derby enables the client and server to sync models across the board in real-time.
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Small community
Derby seems to have a small community of followers, at least compared to other Node full-stack frameworks. So it could be difficult for a beginner to find examples or help if they get stuck somewhere in their development.
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Views are rendered on the server
Derby renders it's client-side views on the server. This means that there's no "delay" in serving the content to the browser when the user requests it. It's also very helpful for SEO purposes.
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Same code can be run on the client and server
The same code can be run on both the server and the client, because Derby is a full-stack JavaScript-everywhere platform.
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Express.io
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Mature
Being built from two of the oldest Node libraries where each of them has had several releases and constant bug fixes and patches means that express.io is a rather mature solution for building realtime web applications.
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Working with relational databases can be a hassle
Not only express, but every Node framework has this problem. While there exist plugins and libraries that allow developers to use relational databases in their web applications, they are not very good and usually it's a hassle and more trouble than it's worth to use a relational database with Node and express.
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Large userbase
Express is the most used Node.js web framework and this brings a large number of learning resources, guides, tutorials and many libraries available for it.
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Can easily be upgraded from an Expressjs app
Since Express.io is basically just the Express framework + socket.io, it's very easy to upgrade an express app to an express.io app. First run: npm install express.io Then swap require('express') to require('express.io') and it will run the same as before.
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FastAPI
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Dependency injection
It has a simple but powerful dependency injection system, it can be used to handle authentication, per-user rate limiting, authorization controls (e.g. with roles), etc.
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Smaller community
Since FastAPI is relatively new, its community is smaller than Django Rest Framework. But it can grow with time.
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Standards
It is based on standards: OpenAPI, JSON Schema and OAuth 2.0.
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Data validation
It validates the data using the types you declared. Even in deeply nested JSON requests.
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High-performance
It's based on Starlette and Pydantic, so, it's one of the fastest Python frameworks.
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Editor completion
It is based on Python type declarations, so, editors and tools can give great support. Including type checks and autocompletion everywhere.
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One of the fastest growing communities
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Fast is really fast (!)
It's easy to develop API based applications in Python on deadlines for Android and IOS Development.
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Automatic docs
It generates interactive API documentation automatically from your code.
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Database independent
It's independent of database or ORM, but compatible with all of them. Including relational databases and NoSQL.
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Async IO / optional
It's based on Async IO, which gives it high concurrency. But you can use non-async libraries and it runs them appropriately.
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World class documentation
It has some of the best documentation of any framework.
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WebSockets
Because it's an async framework, it can handle async-native protocols like WebSockets.
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OAuth 2.0
It has integrated support for OAuth 2.0. Including declaring required scopes per endpoint. So, you can easily integrate it with external OAuth 2.0 providers or build your own with it.
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Background tasks
Included support for background tasks, thanks to being based on Starlette.
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Supports GraphQL
Python's graphene library is included as an optional dependency meaning that GraphQL API's are supported out of the box, with no additional tweaking needed.
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Massive community with lots of tutorials and guides
The sheer scale and massive number of developers using Rails has produced a large number of guides, tutorials, plugins, documentation, videos and anything that can help new and old Rails developers.
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Learning curve seems low at first, but starts becoming steeper
Rails' simplicity is deceptive. It's learning curve is really low at first, and the huge number of tutorials and guides out there for starting with Rails make it even easier. But it starts getting harder and harder as apps become more complicated. If good code conventions and OO design are not followed, then the codebase will be all over the place and it becomes impossible to maintain it.
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Many plugins (gems) available
There are many third-party plugins (Ruby gems) available for Rails development. The larger ones and those that have a lot of downloads and users are very well documented and easy to use.
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Too much magic
So much behavior is implemented with dynamic behind-the-scenes changes to existing classes that obscure bugs are way too common. Conflicting interactions between multiple plugins that both try to change the same objects are a particularly pernicious example.
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Ruby is a nice readable language
Ruby has a very clean syntax that makes code easier to both read and write than more traditional Object Oriented languages, such as Java. For beginning programmers, this means the focus is on the meaning of the program, where it should be, rather than trying to figure out the meaning of obscure characters. presidents = ["Ford", "Carter", "Reagan", "Bush1", "Clinton", "Bush2"] for ss in 0...presidents.length print ss, ": ", presidents[presidents.length - ss - 1], "\n"; end
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Too much convention
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Good conventions
MVC is a great starting point, and perfect for APIs. You'll rarely if ever have to wonder "where should I put this code?"
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Not a very popular language outside of web development
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Small projects are very easy and it's possible to finish one in very little time
The large number of documentation, tutorials, videos and guides which help new developers who are just starting with Rails make it seem very easy to create a small and simple application by relying on code generation and components that come out of the box with Rails.
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Bad performance
Among the slowest frameworks. If you want to scale, you will have to migrate to another land.
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Cool language
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Supported on every major cloud or VPS hosting service
Rails is supported on every major Cloud hosting service nowadays. There are also countless tutorials that help developers deploy their Rails apps if there are any problems on the way.
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Meta-programming capabilities
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Default Template Engine:
ERB
Default ORM:
ActiveRecord
Default Test Engine:
RSpec & Cucumber
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Symfony
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Open Source
Symfony is open source and released under the MIT license.
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Settings
Too many configurations.
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Easy debugging with a built-in debug toolbar
Symfony comes with a built-in toolbar that helps developers debug their applications during the development phase. The toolbar is also extendable and new components, called panels can be added if needed to help with the debugging process.
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Very hard to install
Setting it up on webhost without a console is difficult.
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Great plugin ecosystem
One of the greatest strengths of Symfony is it's amazing and large plugin ecosystem, which comes as a result of it's large and dedicated community. Having a large number of plugins means less development time and more productivity.
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Promotes bad development practices
Such as annotations via comments.
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Highly active community
Symfony has one of the most active communities out of all the PHP frameworks. This is shown by the high number of commits made every day in the GitHub repo.
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Doctrine ORM
Symfony Standard Edition, which is the most widely used distribution, comes integrated with Doctrine, the most resource hogging ORM library.
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Teaches you good practices
Symfony makes you be a better programmer. You have to deal with the latest object-oriented design patterns such as service-oriented architecture, dependency injection, interface abstraction, and so on.
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You need a lot of files to display a single page
For a simple hello world page you need about 5 files.
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Uses YAML/XML/PHP/Annotation
Symfony makes use of XML, YAML or PHP annotations to create configurations in order to tell Doctrine on how properties of a certain class should be.
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Powerful event system
Symfony has a powerful built-in event system that allows you to add flexibility to applications and makes it easier to maintain the codebase down the road.
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Great templating engine
Uses Twig, which is a simple and easy to learn templating language that can also be used as a standalone engine, outside the framework.
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Uses Doctrine ORM
Symfony makes use of the Doctrine ORM to add an abstraction layer over the database in order to maintain flexibility without having unnecessary code duplication.
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License:
MIT License
Initial Release:
2005
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PHP
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Strapi
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Auto-generate REST APIs
Strapi comes with blueprints that let you create, read, update and delete your data. You also can paginate, sort and filter your results in a matter of seconds with simple but yet specific parameters.
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Users, groups and permissions
Manage user settings, login, registration, groups and permissions on the fly. Strapi delivers all those essential features out-of-the-box.
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Out-of-the-box administration panel
Easy way to manage your application. This panel allows you to add/edit/delete entries for your APIs, manage your users, groups and permissions. In the future, it will be such as WordPress-like administration panel dedicated to your application.
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Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker
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Node.js
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Auto-generated Documentation
All the documentation for the services is auto-generated based on the configuration files and schema used to specify the services.
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Robust and scalable micro services platform
Quickly gets fully functional and secure micro-services started.
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Test harness is in built
All the web services specified in the configuration can be tested with an inbuilt harness.
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Inbuilt Security
All the web services can be configured with security options that include https The location of the certificates are configurable. Other forms of security like authentication can be specified.
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Schema Validation for parameters and data payload
The JSON Schema standard compatible input parameters and payloads can be specified and auto validated at run time.
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Configurable Route Specification
All routes can be specified in a configuration file and the corresponding classes can be implemented in separate files.
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License:
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javascript
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Minimalist without losing power
Flask is very easy to get up and going, with vanilla HTML or with bootstrap pieces. It doesn't take much lines of Python to load Flask to get headers working, etc, and since it's all modular you don't have to have something you don't want in your application.
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Not async-friendly
Flask is explicitly not designed to handle async programming.
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Lots of resources available online
Flask is one of the most popular Python web frameworks, if not the most popular one. As such, there's plenty of guides, tutorials, and libraries available for it. A large number of important Python libraries, such as SQLAlchemy have libraries for Flask, which add valuable bindings to make the development process and the integration between these libraries and Flask as easy as possible.
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Setting up a large project requires some previous knowledge of the framework
Setting up a large project with Flask is not that easy considering how there's no "official" way of doing it. Blueprints are a useful tool in this regard but require some additional reading and are a bit tricky to get right for a beginner. The lack of some defaults can also be problematic. Having to choose between different libraries for a certain task is never easy, especially if you have never worked with Flask before.
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Extremely easy to build a quick prototype
Even though it's pretty minimalistic out of the box, Flask still provides the necessary tools to build a quick prototype for a web app right after a fresh install. With all the main components pretty much packed in the flask package, building a simple web app in a single Python file is as easy as it gets.
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Threadlocals and globals used everywhere
The default way of creating applications in flask makes it hard to use reusable and clean code.
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Very flexible
Flask gives developers a lot of flexibility in how they develop their web applications. For example, the choice of not having an ORM, but instead choosing one suited to the task, or another area where Flask gives a lot of options to developers is the templating. They can use Jinja2, Flask's default templating language or choose from a number of different templating languages they desire.
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HTML-oriented, not API-oriented
Not necessarily designed for making APIs, though that is possible
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Great documentation
The official documentation is very thorough and complete. Everything is explained in-depth and followed by extremely well-explained tutorials that tackle real-world problems.
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Able to use ORM or "true SQL"
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BSD License
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ASP.NET Core
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Fast and getting faster
Thanks to breakthroughs in ROSLYN compiler and the efforts of the .NET COre developer team, code written in C# can reach speeds just a step behind C++.
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Microsoft environment
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Multi platform
Can run on Windows, Linux and Mac (also Visual Studio Code editor).
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JSON optimization
In .NET Core 2.1 and 3.0, new APIs are added that make it possible to write JSON APIs that require less memory, using Span<T> and UTF8 strings, and improve throughput of applications like Kestrel, ASP.NET Core web server. See also Utf8JsonReader.
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Tutorials and documentation quality
Both microsoft and 3rd party tutorials are mostly of high quality and encourage you to use the industry best-practices.
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Built-in middleware
Built-in middleware featuring: Authentication, Cookie policy, Health Check, MVC, Session etc.
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Hosting
Ability to host on IIS, Nginx, Apache, Docker, or self-host in your own process.
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Ease of Use
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Security
It is a very secure platform.
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Tooling
Both VS and VSCode are powerful free IDEs that are well integrated with ASP.net Core. VS Community also allows for commercial use for projects with less than 5 developers.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Mac, Docker
Written in:
C#
Default ORM:
Entity Framework
Visual GUI Builder:
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CakePHP
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Built-in ORM that's easy to use
Cake has a built-in ORM which is pretty easy to use and learn. Building queries can also be done very easily and fetching entire columns can be done in one or two lines of code.
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Slow
Because of legacy code, old concepts and prioritizing development speed over everything else, CakePHP is bloated and slow.
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Fast development
Developing in CakePHP is very fast and flexible. CakePHP is about fast and reliable development, it achieves this by following the convention over configuration principle as it's heavily inspired by Rails (which follows the same programming paradigm). Convention over configuration is all about making it easier for the developer to start immediately writing code without worrying on what's going on "under the hood".
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Large library of helper classes
CakePHP has a large library of helper classes with features such as: Authorization AJAX Forms E-mails Internationalization etc...
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Exhaustive list of resources to learn CakePHP
Cake's great community has thrown together an exhaustive and amazing list of resources to get started with CakePHP. It's open source and can be found on GitHub.
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Open Source
CakePHP open source and is licensed under the MIT license.
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PHP version:
5.4.16+
Default Template Engine:
CakePHP Template
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Default ORM included out of the box
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Django
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Can feel bloated for small projects
Django's sheer scale and functionality can feel clunky and bloated for small applications. It has too many bells and whistles which can get in the way when developing a small scale application.
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Developing a simple prototype can be very fast
Django's philosophy of batteries included means that experienced developers won't have to plan too much ahead on what kind of application infrastructure they need and instead just start developing web applications quickly.
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The documentation does not cover real-world scenarios
It is a larger documentation indeed, however is not deep and covers non real problems or even don't show any examples. You'll be better with Google or Stackoverflow
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ORM support out of the box
Django supports Object-Relational Mapping. With models defined as Python classes which are actually subclasses of Django's django.db.models.Model. Each attribute of the model is then represented as a database field. Queries are lazily executed and Django gives developers an automatically-generated database-access API.
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Routing requires some knowledge of regular expressions
Given a GET request for /topics/426/viewpoints/1/sections/create, how does Django decide which bit of Python code is invoked to handle it? It compares the request path to your giant pile of regular expressions. And then if there's some other regular expression starts matching /top and all your requests for /topics/ start going there, good luck figuring out why. You won't be informed of any conflict until you notice you seem to be getting the wrong pages back. The structure of URL paths is almost universally hierarchal. There is no call to have anything as ridiculously flexible (and notoriously hard-to-read) as regular expressions to organize request routing.
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Top notch documentation and help from community
The official Django documentation is probably some of the best around. Well written, thorough and they explain every little detail of the framework. Django is also a very popular tool, with an extensive community and a lot of experienced developers that have been using it for years. This means that there are a lot of guides and tutorials out there for new and experienced developers alike.
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Template errors fail silently by default
If you make a typo in a template variable, or change a view so that variable is no longer passed to the template, you won't get an error message pointing out that something has gone wrong. That reference will just be treated as if it is an empty string instead. There is a way to configure this, but since so many templates have been written assuming this behavior, nobody ever enables template errors because it would break so much of the existing support tools (e.g. the built-in admin interface).
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Highly customizable
Django is in itself a highly customizable web framework. The database, template framework and ORM can all be swapped out.
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Has an admin panel out of the box
Django comes with a highly customizable admin panel and authentication out of the box. This makes the development and production of a simple CMS extremely easy.
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Mature software with many plugins developed over the years
Django was first released in 2005, it has had a lot of time to mature and become better with each release. It also has by far the largest community out of all python frameworks who have continuously over the years built and maintained many powerful plugins.
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Clear and defined MVC organization
Django follows some pretty well established MVC patterns. With everything in place and where requests follow a clear path through urlresolvers, middleware, view and context processors.
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Simple database management
Just a few lines of code can instruct Django to create all the tables and fields required in your database automatically. Schemas are managed with "migrations", that are also created automatically, and can be rolled out from your development box and implemented on production systems with just a single command. This performs any database changes required, from table creation, indexes, renaming fields, and pre-populating initial data. Each migration builds on the previous migrations, so you can trace the evolution of your data and even recreate the layout of your database at any point in the lifecycle of your application.
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Multi Language Support:
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