Dropwizard vs TsED
When comparing Dropwizard vs TsED, the Slant community recommends Dropwizard for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” Dropwizard is ranked 28th while TsED is ranked 57th. The most important reason people chose Dropwizard is:
The application can be run and debugged from the IDE without the need to recompile or redeploy the WAR file. This is because a Dropwizard web application creates on main program which starts the jetty container.
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Pros
Pro Enhanced productivity and less timewasting
The application can be run and debugged from the IDE without the need to recompile or redeploy the WAR file. This is because a Dropwizard web application creates on main program which starts the jetty container.

Pro Application metrics integrated into the framework
Dropwizard comes with application metrics integrated out of the box. These metrics provide a lot of useful information such as request/response time.
For example, to get the execution time of a method, the @Timed
annotation is used.

Pro Quick project bootstrap
Starting a project with Dropwizard si very easy and bootstraping is quick and painless. All that's needed is a single dependency added in the pom.xml
file and it's ready to go.
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 Does not allow a lot a freedom of choice
Dropwizard removes a lot of freedom that the developer may have with other frameworks because of the fact that it tries to do everything itself. It chooses the best Java libraries for the job required, without allowing the developer much choice.
