Where we use it
- Small APIs
- Middleware-heavy services
- Legacy Node apps
Strengths
- Simple
- Huge middleware ecosystem
Considerations
Trade-offs worth knowing before you choose it.
- Structure is up to you
- Slower than Fastify
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More in backend
- No
Node.js
JavaScript on the server, well suited to I/O-heavy APIs and real-time applications.
- Ne
NestJS
A structured Node.js framework with modules and dependency injection for large back ends.
- Fy
Fastify
A fast, low-overhead Node.js framework with schema-based validation and serialisation.
- Py
Python
A versatile language for web back ends, data engineering, automation and machine learning.
- Dj
Django
A batteries-included Python framework with ORM, admin and authentication.
- FA
FastAPI
A modern Python API framework with type-driven validation and automatic OpenAPI docs.
- Fl
Flask
A lightweight Python micro-framework.
- PH
PHP
The language behind much of the web, modern and fast in current versions.
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