Node.js API Frameworks

Tools for making a REST API with Node.js

Comparison

• http://blog.newrelic.com/2014/08/15/node-js-frameworks-hapi-js-restify-geddy/

Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5KwFQOXrY4

Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js

• http://expressjs.com/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/express
• http://geekswithblogs.net/shaunxu/archive/2012/09/17/node.js-adventure---node.js-with-sql-server.aspx
• http://blog.akiban.com/get-restful-with-node-js/

Express generator: http://expressjs.com/starter/generator.html

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqMIyTH9wSg

Restify

Build correct REST web services (APIs)

• Drawback: No sessions supported?

• http://mcavage.me/node-restify/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/restify
• http://blog.yojimbocorp.com/2012/09/10/ms-sql-server-driver-for-node-js-with-json-response/
• http://weblogs.asp.net/chanderdhall/microsoft-sql-server-driver-for-nodejs-part-2

Hapi

• http://hapijs.com/
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/hapi