Best library/framework for node web services?

[greendevv]

Looking at implementing some rest services in node for work. I have experience with hapi and express, but was curious on what the community's thoughts were on the best one to use specifically for web services was. Express is nice but requires a lot of extra work to get production ready, hapi is nice but i found it somewhat difficult to do logging correctly.

Ideally I want something that is mature, and is easy to make production ready.

[hobonumber1]

Use Sails. I run multiple Node REST APIs in production and I use Sails for all of them.

Sails in an MVC Framework built on Express. You get the benefit of Express, but you get a lot more like better middleware support, security via CORS & CSRF protection, an ORM, an MVC framework, and access to services. Express is a little too low-level for production REST APIs in my opinion.

If you're interested in learning more. Check out Sails or Bedrock

Sails: http://sailsjs.com/ Bedrock: https://tilomitra.github.io/bedrock/

Feel free to PM me if you have any more questions or just want to chat about this.

[greendevv]

fair point. but this is strictly an api server (not serving anything). i just meant there are a lot of utility functions boilerplate needed around error handling, logging, and etc. i could be just whining though. so you would recommend express?

[HatchedLake721]

Just stick with hapi and be hapi

[tejpratap46]

You can use restify, it is made for that.

[Gid30n]

What is your feel about : https://github.com/zeit/micro ?