> I switched back to node.js with fastify and wrote my app in an hour. Of course you did. You're on familiar ground. Personally I'm also familiar with .Net a

> I switched back to node.js with fastify and wrote my app in an hour. Of course you did. You're on familiar ground. Personally I'm also familiar with .Net and could do the same in that stack in that timeframe too. Like with many things worth doing, it requires a time investment to reach that point. Having said that, .Net APIs support JSON request/response out of the box, validation is available on the models in seconds using a powerful set of attribute annotations, and Swagger is also built in out of the box. And API projects can seem similar to MVC ones as they use the same framework and libraries, but whilst the out of the box APIs have controllers they don't have views. So to repeat, it's down to familiarity. Edit: For clarity this is not a criticism. I fully understand why these things may not be obvious up front. Both the validation attributes and the Swagger URL for the default support are not obvious to the newcomer.