That's not really the point though - it's a comparison between multiple frameworks using their implementation of a Hacker News clone as a sort of benchmark. Mor

That's not really the point though - it's a comparison between multiple frameworks using their implementation of a Hacker News clone as a sort of benchmark. More importantly - by looking at the source of each one, you can compare the common patterns and pitfalls of the framework. I do agree though that these all are not good use cases for the frameworks - a news aggregation site doesn't have enough state or cross-application relationships to warrant the overhead of any of these framework. Especially in comparison to Hacker News - which is so minimalist as it is - adding to it can only really take away.