When comparing Lift vs Koa, the Slant community recommends Koa for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” Koa is ranked 33rd while Lift is ranked 58th. The most important reason people chose Koa is:
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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Pros
Pro View First architecture
Lift apparently pioneered the View First architecture, which is greatly superior to MVC for implementing DRY code. A common issue with MVC that it solves is the need to place a single component on multiple different pages, which, with MVC architecture, tends to require logic to be duplicated across multiple controllers. With View First, the code supporting the component is associated directly with the component, enabling the component to be inserted in many contexts with ease and without any additional code.
Pro Excellent security
Pro 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.
Pro Extremely lightweight
Koa is very lightweight with just 550 lines of code.
Pro 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.
Pro Development team has a proven track record
Koa is developed by the team behind a widely used node.js framework (express.js).
Pro Built for ES6
Cons
Con Community is relatively small
Con Not compatible with express style middleware
Koa uses generators which are not compatible with any other type of Node.js framework middleware.