Node.js web frameworks — where do we even begin? With so many options out there, choosing the right one for your project can feel overwhelming.
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Honestly, NestJS is the way to go. Once you've tried it, you realize it’s basically like the TypeScript equivalent of Spring Boot but with a lot less headache. Nest is made for scaling, and if you're dealing with microservices or even just a well-organized architecture, it's a no-brainer. Other frameworks? Setting up pipelines, decorators, handling Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, gRPC – you’ll be building all that from scratch and probably still not hit the same efficiency.
With Nest, everything's already encapsulated and streamlined through decorators and built-in setups. Even on smaller projects, you’re building faster because you’ve got all these structured modules, and you’re not having to reinvent the wheel. The way it separates business logic, services, and controllers keeps your codebase manageable – you won’t end up with a pile of spaghetti code. Trust me, after trying all kinds of frameworks, Nest just hits different for clean, scalable builds.
You can check one of my blogs about nest - Scalable REST APIs with NestJS
NestJs does come with significant learning curve compared to others, but later when you really understood what it's opinions are, you'll be flying with your coding and fixing. That thing is crazy good for microservice infrastructure, it's very intuitive and saves lots of time.
Encore is presented as a framework here, which is actually misleading - it is an alternative runtime that replaces Node entirely.
Encore is an entirely different category from the things you're comparing to here. This wasn't even touched on in this article.
To be honest, the whole article reads like another attempt at misleading advertisement for Encore, and it isn't the first time you've attempted something like that:
dev.to/encore/how-to-make-your-exp...
A similarly misleading title (which you declined to change) and essentially a guide to porting your Express app to Encore.
Likewise, this article would have you believe we're comparing frameworks, when Encore isn't even strictly (or at least not only) a framework.
I honestly think you're going about your marketing and placement of Encore all wrong.
Why are you trying to position this as an alternative to Express, one of the lightest lightweight frameworks there is?
You're an entirely different category of product.
I'm not honestly completely sure what category of product you are. You want to be a Typescript framework, but you're really a platform, and you're based on Go?
To be honest, this framework seems to be trying to break out of it's own niche, perhaps because it's a niche that doesn't really exist? 🤨
It's good to see someone has good clarity about these things
Bro, nice work. But in 2025 deno might overcome NodeJs soon.
Bun already did overcome both of them
You should use deepkit.io if you're not a noob.
These frameworks are a joke in comparison.
Encore seems similar to DeepKit in terms of size and scope? They both look very enterprisey - very oriented around classes.
The DeepKit ORM is one thing that drove me off rather quickly. I do not want an ORM, I just want
sql-template-tagand raw PostgreSQL joy. 😄I want more functions and FP, less classes and OOP. I have tried DeepKit and it does look like you can have those things, at least in theory, but the framework isn't really set up for a happy path without classes and ORM, is it? You would essentially be writing your own framework, I think? Although the run-time reflection and type checking facilities would certainly give you some wild new ways to do that. 🙂
One thing I do like better about DeepKit is the fact that it's just an NPM package you can install in Node. Encore wants to replace Node, which puts it in an entirely different category from the things they keep trying to compare it against. It honestly seems like a product with a bit of an identity crisis. (and/or a confused marketing department.)
No Remix, deploys everywhere, including Cloudflare?
Why not ExpressJS added here?
you should peak Effect