When comparing Loopback vs Adonisjs, the Slant community recommends Loopback for most people. In the question“What are the best web frameworks to create a web REST API?” Loopback is ranked 14th while Adonisjs is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Loopback is:
Easily and quickly get going.
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Pros
Pro Easy to get a project up and running
Easily and quickly get going.
Pro 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.
Pro Similar to Rails
Pro Built-in modules for everything
There are built-in modules for everything: Auth, Social Auth, mailing ect
Pro Has websocket support out of the box
Pro Very good documentation
Pro Easy to learn, especially if you're already familiar with Laravel
Pro 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.
Cons
Con Strong-PM process manager
It's not required to run a loopback app and can be a pain to deal with.
Con No NOSQL integration
Only used ORM, not ODM.