14 NodeJS Web Framework Recommendations_node.js

Over the past few years, Node.js has gradually developed into a mature development platform, attracting many developers. There are many large, high-traffic websites that use Node.js for development, like PayPal. In addition, developers can also use it to develop some fast mobile web frameworks.

Here are 14 web application frameworks based on Node.js. You may wish to come and see if there is one that suits you.

　1.Primus

Primus, is the creator of Transformer and is also known as the universal wrapper real-time framework. Primus includes a large number of real-time frameworks for Node.js, and they all have various real-time capabilities. In addition, Primus also provides a common low-level interface for communication between various real-time frameworks. Primus is open source and hosted on Github.

　2.Geddy

Geddy is a very simple structured MVC framework based on Node.js. You can use it to quickly build web applications and JSON APIs. If you have used Ruby on Rails or PHP codelgniter, Geddy is very similar to them. It has a RESTful routing, template rendering, controllers and models.

Developers who want to learn Geddy can go to Fleegix. There are a lot of tutorials and learning materials about using Geddy, and this blog is developed using Geddy.

　3.Locomotive

Locomotive is a powerful Node.js MVC framework that supports RESTfu and can seamlessly connect to any database and template engine. Locomotive is built on Express, maintaining the power and simplicity of Node.js.

　4.KeystoneJS

KeystoneJS is a Node.js CMS content management platform and web application platform based on Express and Mongoose. It can be used to easily and quickly build database-driven website applications. It also provides security authentication and session management, dynamic routing, automatic encryption of passwords, form verification processing, automatic generation of management interfaces, email sending, etc.

　5.Grasshopper

Grasshopper is a feature-rich and very flexible Node.js framework that basically supports all web development features. Recommend a learning example to everyone.

　6.DozerJS

DozerJS is a tool designed to develop scalable RESTful APIs and Web services to support front-end development. Here are two DozerJS tutorials recommended for everyone, one is Introductory Tutorial, and the other is DozerJS Development Example.

　7.Chocolate.js

Chocolate.js is a simple web application framework (collection) based on Node.js and built using CoffeeScript. Students who want to learn this framework can go to here to get a comprehensive understanding of it, and there are a lot of examples in it.

　8.Datachannel.io

Datachannel.io is a real-time communication web application inspired by the socket.io framework and implemented using WebRTC technology. Data connections can be made directly and data exchange operations can be performed without going through a server.

　9.StrongLoop

StrongLoop is an API service developed based on Node.js. Its most famous real-time performance monitoring product is called StrongOps, also commonly called Nodefly. The StrongLoop suite includes three products: LookBack, StrongOps, and StrongNode.

　10.UglifyJS

UglifyJS is a server-side Node.js compression program that contains all necessary tools and extensible documentation to help developers improve code efficiency.

　11.Derby

Derby is an MVC framework that helps write real-time, interactive applications. Can run in Node.js or browser environment. It also has a data synchronization engine Racer. I recommend two learning resources to everyone: Node.js MVC: Express.js Derby.js Hello World tutorial, and using Derby.js development tutorial.

　12.Dojo Toolkit

Dojo Tookkit is a very powerful JavaScript class library that can implement any function. Here is a tutorial using Node.js and Dojo development.

　13.CompoundJS

CompoundJS is a Node.js MVC framework that developers can use to build a web application in minutes. Quick StartTutorial.

　14.KnockoutJS

KnockoutJS is a lightweight UI class library that simplifies JavaScript front-end UI by applying the MVVM pattern. For example, after the list data items are added or deleted, there is no need to refresh the entire control fragment or write JS to add or delete nodes by yourself. You only need to pre-define the template and attributes that conform to its syntax definition. Simply put, developers only need to focus on data access.