I’m currently in a position where I’m looking to use a stack that doesn’t include Meteor (crazy, right?!). We’re fortunate to have a lot more options for Node.js frameworks these days, and I’m evaluating the following:
- Feathers
- Hapi
- Koa
- Express
- Adonis
- Loopback
- Sails
- real-time/reactive, but perhaps more on an opt-in basis than Meteor; not everything needs to be real-time
- interfaces well with Apollo + GraphQL
- should be super performant and scale really well
- lightweight: fast build & deploy times
- friendly to junior-level devs
- should be pretty mature/stable and well-supported (by the community or otherwise)
- definitely not looking for the next new and shiny thing
- (optional but strongly desired) ability to use ES2015, including async/await
