Peter Wayner
Contributing Writer

13 fabulous frameworks for Node.js

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May 5, 20168 mins

This baker's dozen of lean and mean Node.js frameworks can help streamline your development of fast websites, rich APIs, and real-time apps

13 fabulous Node.js frameworks

Node.js may be several years old now, but it’s still in the spring of its life. The options are multiplying, as everyone experiments with new and better ways to deliver information from the platform. These efforts translate into dozens of frameworks for Node.js enthusiasts and newbies to explore, and new growth everywhere.

What follows are a few of the most prominent frameworks that have caught our eye. They make it simpler to build a complex website filled with pages, panels, fragments, and more. If you’re starting a new project, try out a few of these to quickly build on all the prior work and experience that has been bundled into these projects.

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Peter Wayner

Peter Wayner is a contributing writer to InfoWorld. He has written extensively about programming languages (including Java, JavaScript, SQL, WebAssembly, and experimental languages), databases (SQL and NoSQL), cloud computing, cloud-native computing, artificial intelligence, open-source software, prompt engineering, programming habits (both good and bad), and countless other topics of keen interest to software developers. Peter also has written for mainstream publications including The New York Times and Wired, and he is the author of more than 20 books, mainly on technology. His work on mimic functions, a camouflaging technique for encoding data so that it takes on the statistical characteristics of other information (an example of steganography), was the basis of his book, Disappearing Cryptography. Peter’s book Free for All covered the cultural, legal, political, and technical roots of the open-source movement. His book Translucent Databases offered practical techniques for scrambling data so that it is inscrutable but still available to make important decisions. This included some of the first homomorphic encryption. In his book Digital Cash, Peter illustrates how techniques like a blockchain can be used establish an efficient digital economy. And in Policing Online Games, Peter lays out the philosophical and mathematical foundations for building a strong, safe, and cheater-free virtual world.

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