When comparing Hapi vs TsED, the Slant community recommends Hapi for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” Hapi is ranked 27th while TsED is ranked 57th. The most important reason people chose Hapi is:
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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Pros
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Pro Brings MVC to Express
One of the conns of Express (even in this site) is the lack of structure.
This framework brings structure to Express applications which makes large-scale development much easier
Pro Uses decorators
Similar to most other popular frameworks
Pro Adding string types to Express with Typescript
Express is already an awesome framework, but with types it makes the work much easier
Pro Great support
Any issue opened gets resolved or answered very quickly
Pro Great documentation
Updated regularly
Cons
Con 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.
