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I'd also recommend Restify http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/ http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/ for writing API's on Node.
by byoung2 14y ago
I'd also recommend Restify http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/ http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/ for writing API's on Node.
- jawerty 14y agoI understand that restify has faster responses, but what else can put it on par with express?
- general_failure 14y agoI recommend express simply because more people know about it. This really matters in an ecosystem so young as node. Information is very hard to get. Hint : compare the number of express and restify blog posts. Note : I do use testify and its great. In addition, if you want to take you rest a pi server to also provide web pages, express is more suitable.
- helper 14y agoI second this recommendation. Restify is targeted at APIs so it has built in support for things like API versioning, auto content negotiation and observability (via DTrace). This is not to say that express is bad or that you can't build APIs using express but rather that I find restify more enjoyable to use for APIs.
- qdnguyen 14y agoAnd lighter!