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ExpressJS vs Slim: What are the differences?

Developers describe ExpressJS as "Sinatra inspired web development framework for node.js -- insanely fast, flexible, and simple". Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications. On the other hand, Slim is detailed as "A PHP micro framework". Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

ExpressJS and Slim belong to "Microframeworks (Backend)" category of the tech stack.

"Simple" is the top reason why over 321 developers like ExpressJS, while over 27 developers mention "Microframework" as the leading cause for choosing Slim.

ExpressJS and Slim are both open source tools. ExpressJS with 44.6K GitHub stars and 7.48K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Slim with 9.95K GitHub stars and 1.84K GitHub forks.

Twitter, Intuit, and OpenTable are some of the popular companies that use ExpressJS, whereas Slim is used by Coderus, Helpful, and Die Coder GmbH. ExpressJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 854 company stacks & 788 developers stacks; compared to Slim, which is listed in 29 company stacks and 21 developer stacks.

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Pros of ExpressJS
Pros of Slim
  • 378
    Simple
  • 333
    Node.js
  • 242
    Javascript
  • 192
    High performance
  • 150
    Robust routing
  • 71
    Middlewares
  • 70
    Open source
  • 57
    Great community
  • 37
    Hybrid web applications
  • 13
    Well documented
  • 9
    Sinatra inspired
  • 9
    Rapid development
  • 7
    Isomorphic js.. superfast and easy
  • 5
    Socket connection
  • 5
    Light weight
  • 4
    Npm
  • 4
    Resource available for learning
  • 3
    Event loop
  • 3
    Callbacks
  • 2
    Data stream
  • 32
    Microframework
  • 27
    API
  • 21
    Open source
  • 20
    Php
  • 11
    Fast
  • 8
    Restful & fast framework
  • 7
    Easy Setup, Great Documentation
  • 5
    Clear and straightforward
  • 5
    Good document to upgrade from previous version
  • 4
    Modular
  • 1
    Composer
  • 1
    Dependency injection
  • 1
    Easy to learn

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Cons of ExpressJS
Cons of Slim
  • 27
    Not python
  • 17
    Overrated
  • 14
    No multithreading
  • 9
    Javascript
  • 5
    Not fast
  • 2
    Easily Insecure for Novices
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    What is ExpressJS?

    Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.

    What is Slim?

    Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

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    What are some alternatives to ExpressJS and Slim?
    Koa
    Koa aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs. Through leveraging generators Koa allows you to ditch callbacks and greatly increase error-handling. Koa does not bundle any middleware.
    React
    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
    Flask
    Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
    Django
    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
    Golang
    Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the power of run-time reflection. It's a fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language.
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