What are the best full-stack Node.js frameworks?

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Best full-stack Node.js frameworks	Price	Repository	Platforms
90 Meteor	-	-	-
-- Express.js	-	https://github.com/expressjs/express	Cross-platform
-- FeathersJS	-	-	-
-- Sails.js	-	https://github.com/balderdashy/sails	-
-- Nuxt	-	-	-

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Express.js

Top Pro

Very simple and fast

Look at this research here. See More

Top Con

Demands manual labor-intensive tasks

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Repository:https://github.com/expressjs/express

Platforms:Cross-platform

License:MIT

Written in:JavaScript

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Top Pro

Has detailed documentation

Top Con

Provides no universal way of organizing things

Top Pro

Powerful routed API

Top Pro

Huge supporting community

Top Pro

Lightweight

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

Has the largest userbase

It's by far the most popular framework for node. See More

Top Pro

Supports many third-party plugins

Top Pro

It initializes resources in Drawable, Values folders and others

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FeathersJS

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

Not so widely used

Could be problematic to convince the client use this framework in his/her project. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

Top Pro

Very lightweight and easy to debug

Feathers is very concisely implemented compared to most other tools with similar capabilities. Its code base is small enough to understand for an outsider. Debugging really is feasible with this framework and the low complexity and stack-depths. See More

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Sails.js

Top Con

Very long start-up time

Takes very long to fully start. See More

Top Pro

MVC architecture

If you prefer to build your apps using the Model View Controller architecture. Using Sails.js you'll find the task of separating the business logic from the user interface and keeping the interactions between them in a separate layer, extremely easy. See More

Specs

Repository:https://github.com/balderdashy/sails

Top Con

Out of the box test support is missing

When generating a new Sails project, it comes without any support for unit testing, everything has to be installed and configured manually later by the developer themselves. See More

Top Pro

Easy to build

Top Con

Pathologically poor performance

So bad that it gives Node a bad name. See: link. Sails can be nearly 300x slower than Express. Not worth the overhead. See More

Top Pro

JSON REST API generated for free

Exposes public JSON REST API for free. No additional routing to be defined. Makes it pretty easy to access data from anywhere. See More

Top Pro

ORM that can be plugged into any database, or even custom web service

Sails.js uses Waterline ORM at its backend which means you can store your data in any datastore that you like; all you have to do is make a change to the Waterline adapter, this will allow you to store your data in MySQL/Redis or any other kind of database. See More

Top Pro

Start a project quickly

Sails helps a lot when starting a project, you simply run new appname to create a project skeleton. Then, for example if you want to create a Controller and Model you can run sails generate modelname. So you can create an application and a controller with just a couple of lines of code. See More

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Permission policies

Sails has separate files for permission policies. This way it keeps controllers and permissions code separate. Sails' policies decouple permissions in the same way that data from views and events are decoupled. See More

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Transparent support for Socket.io

Sails.js is built with a focus on building real time communication apps such as chat or multiplayer games, so naturally it has Socket.io extremely well supported. See More

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Derby

Top Pro

Real time communication between server and client

Derby enables the client and server to sync models across the board in real-time. See More

Top Con

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. See More

Top Pro

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. See More

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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. See More

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