Elysia

Express

expressjs/express

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Minimal, unopinionated HTTP framework; the most widely deployed Node.js server library, now on v5.

NestJS

nestjs/nest

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Opinionated, Angular-style framework with DI, modules and decorators for structured enterprise Node.js APIs.

Fastify

fastify/fastify

Popular

High-performance framework with JSON-schema validation and serialization plus a rich plugin system.

Hono

honojs/hono

Trending

Tiny Web Standards framework that runs on Node.js, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers and other edge runtimes.

Koa

koajs/koa

Lean async/await middleware framework from the original Express team; stable but low-churn.

AdonisJS

adonisjs/core

Batteries-included, Laravel-inspired TypeScript MVC framework with ORM, auth and validation built in.

Nitro

nitrojs/nitro

Server toolkit from UnJS (the engine behind Nuxt) that builds deployable servers for any runtime or host.

Encore

encoredev/encore

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Backend framework for TypeScript and Go with infrastructure-from-code, a Rust runtime and built-in tracing.

Effect

Effect-TS/effect

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Functional TypeScript toolkit for typed errors, concurrency, DI and resilient services, increasingly used on servers.