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Discussion on: Introducing the Best 10 Node.js Frameworks for 2019 and 2020

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avidcoder123

It is healthy to learn a microframework but I feel like Express can't really be compared to Flask. Flask does all the basics for you like cookies, sessions, and templating engine but Express doesn't. Express is a bit too flexible; you shouldn't have to worry about such rudimentary things when making servers.

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Oziel Perez

We'll I put them side by side because both of them require you to patch in your own libraries for some things, like ORM. A full framework will include most, if not all things that are commonly used to build apps