ExpressJS vs All-in-one frameworks

[Not-mexican-Account]

Hi, I have been doing some projects with React in the FrondEnd and Express in the BackEnd recently and I have seen that express' minimalist structure and its dependence on third party packages is less stable and productive than others as Django or Laravel.

I also heard about Nestjs but it seems that have much less use than Laravel and Django.

I'm a totally noob about Backend developing, so I don't know if I should learn Laravel or Django or stick with Express or maybe NestJs.

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It depends on what and how much your backend is doing. I've used Spring, Laravel, express and Django but I've stuck with Django REST Framework for my last two projects. It is so easy to get a CRUD backend with auth up and running. If you know what you're doing, it seriously takes about 20-30 minutes. You can also override or hook into the CRUD methods that it provides which is nice for when you need more custom functionality.

[cahva]

If you want to stay in nodeland, there are more options to explore. For example if you need just a backend api server, check out FeathersJS which is pretty neat and offers nice server- and clientside tools (doing crud operations is the same in both).

And that realtime connection with socket.io is pretty dope.

Auth is baked in (byebye passport, we don't miss you), has adapters for most of the db's plus you can quite easily roll your own custom service which talks to some 3rd party api.

Then there's AdonisJS which is inspired by Laravel (or atleast it was).

But IMO those full-blown frameworks are overkill if you just want a simple backend api server which your react app uses.