Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications. It provides a thin layer of fundamental web application features, without obscuring Node.js features that you know and love.

Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node

Sails.js is a web framework that makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. It is designed to resemble the MVC architecture from frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the more modern, data-oriented style of web app development. It's especially good for building realtime features like chat.
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Sails actions are compatible with Connect middleware, so in most cases, you can paste code into Sails from an existing Express project and everything will work-- plus you'll be able to use WebSockets to talk to your API, and vice versa. Sails translates incoming socket messages for you, they're automatically compatible with every route in your Sails app.

Sails.js is a web framework that makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps. It is designed to resemble the MVC architecture from frameworks like Ruby on Rails, but with support for the more modern, data-oriented style of web app development. It's especially good for building realtime features like chat.

Sails.js - Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js

Micro is an asynchronous HTTP microservices. It is designed for usage with async and await. It does not have middleware, With all dependencies, the package weighs less than a megabyte.

Micro — Asynchronous HTTP microservices

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is inspired by Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. It is Highly performant, Schema based, Extendible, Developer friendly and lot more.

fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js 

hapi is a simple to use configuration-centric framework with built-in support for input validation, caching, authentication, and other essential facilities for building web and services applications. hapi enables developers to focus on writing reusable application logic in a highly modular and prescriptive approach. 

hapi - Web and Services Application Framework for Node.js 

Koa is a new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware within core, and provides an elegant suite of methods that make writing servers fast and enjoyable.

Koa - Expressive HTTP middleware framework for node.js

Meteor, an ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. With Meteor you write apps in pure Javascript,     that send data over the wire, rather than HTML. It supports Live page updates, Powerful data synchronization and lot more.


Meteor - Javascript Framework for building web and mobile apps 

Lad is the best Node.js framework. Made by a former Express TC and Koa team member. Lad boasts dozens of features and is extremely configurable. Lad framework includes Webapp server, API server, Proxy server, Job scheduler, Font end, Back end, Email Engine, Translation, Error Handling, Security, Performance.

Lad - Best Node.js framework. Made by a former Express TC and Koa team member

LoopBack is an open source Node.js framework built on top of Express optimized for building APIs for mobile, web, and other devices. Connect to multiple data sources, write business logic in Node.js, glue on top of your existing services and data, connect using JS, iOS & Android SDKs.
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It helps to create dynamic end-to-end REST APIs with little or no coding. It can access data from Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB, SOAP and other REST APIs, Incorporate model relationships and access controls for complex APIs, Use built-in push, geolocation, and file services for mobile apps and lot more.

LoopBack is an open source Node.js framework built on top of Express optimized for building APIs for mobile, web, and other devices. Connect to multiple data sources, write business logic in Node.js, glue on top of your existing services and data, connect using JS, iOS & Android SDKs.

Loopback - The Node.js API Framework

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