Express, Koa or Hapi for today’s node newbies?

1 points by PabloR 10y ago ↗ HN

Today, to somebody new to Node and programming in general, which framework would you recommend learning, Express, Koa or Hapi? Express seemed to be the go to Node’s web framework a while back. Is it still the case these days?

Although I read several discussions supporting all of them I found opposing arguments some of which are:

- In spite of being extremely popular Express slowly getting obsolete, not being as much actively maintained as in the past and that implementing ES6 changes would be better done in a new framework. (As per Express site, version 4.14.0 supporting Node.js 6.x. was released on June 16, 2016)

- Not fond of Koa generators

- Hapi being too complex and requiring too much code for small projects

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cpg1111 10y ago ↗

I pulled the trigger at work that all new services we build in Node use Koa if the need a web framework because it utilizes ES6/7 features most effectively while still having a good bit of simplicity. That said, all of our legacy services, in Node, that need a web framework use Express. I find Express is a good beginner web framework and then once you understand ES 6/7 features in more depth, Koa becomes rather easy to switch to.