The latest articles on DEV Community by Matt (@mful). https://dev.to/mful https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F57518%2Faaa81c37-8a0f-4c43-aed7-ba0dbed487c6.jpeg https://dev.to/mful en Matt Thu, 15 Feb 2018 21:39:03 +0000 https://dev.to/mful/any-recommendations-for-a-rails-like-nodejs-toolchain-for-building-apis--3abd https://dev.to/mful/any-recommendations-for-a-rails-like-nodejs-toolchain-for-building-apis--3abd <p>Reviewing the NodeJS ecosystem, there seem to be many competing tools for similar functionality — Knex vs Waterline vs Sequelize for ORMs; Sails vs Express vs Trails vs for base frameworks; db-migrate vs sails-migrations vs Knex migration support for database migrations; etc. </p> <p>Coming from the Rails world, where there is (relative) consensus on tools, this is a bit overwhelming.</p> <p>Basically, I'm looking for a toolchain that supports the following features:</p> <ul> <li>Database migrations</li> <li>Good PostgreSQL support</li> <li>ORM</li> <li>Supports building JSON APIs</li> <li>Secrets management (nconf seems promising...)</li> </ul> <p>Ergonomically, I look for the following:</p> <ul> <li>Integrated — pieces should easily play well together</li> <li>MVC-ish (the 'V' in this case is JSON, but still...)</li> <li>Production-safe (specifically for SQL DBs — seems like a lot of NodeJS tuts assume NoSQL DBs, and thus ignore stuff like schema versioning &amp; migrations)</li> </ul> <p>I've been messing around with SailJS, and like some of the ideas behind it, but find it's lacking everything SQL-specific (or at least, there doesn't <em>seem</em> to be a consensus on how to handle migrations, etc).</p> <p>What toolchain would you NodeJS devs out there recommend, given the above? Any and all help would be appreciated here!</p> javascript node discuss