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Discussion on: What's the Node framework landscape like?

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Valentin Prugnaud 🦊

Mostly working with Express at work, but it's old and poorly maintained. I have been exploring Fastify and Nest recently, they look very promising!

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Ben Halpern

TLDR on Fastify and Nest?

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Valentin Prugnaud 🦊

Fastify looks like an Express clone. I think Nest is moving the ball forward in terms of features and their documentation is complete.

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Seanmclem

Nest uses a syntax like Angular; all TS, empowered by decorators for lots of things, controllers, services, dependency injection. It uses abstractions on top of express, so express can be swapped out for fastify, and plugins can form more easily