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Koa vs Total.js: What are the differences?

Developers describe Koa as "Next generation web framework for node.js". 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. On the other hand, Total.js is detailed as "Framework for creating rich web sites, web applications, e-commerce and real-time applications". It is a Framework for Node.js platfrom written in pure JavaScript similar to PHP's Laravel or Python's Django or ASP.NET MVC.

Koa and Total.js can be categorized as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Koa are:

  • Provides 3 different kinds of functions as middleware
  • common function
  • async function

On the other hand, Total.js provides the following key features:

  • Super fast development
  • Extremely low maintenance costs
  • Rock solid stability

Koa and Total.js are both open source tools. Koa with 27.1K GitHub stars and 2.49K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Total.js with 3.97K GitHub stars and 434 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Koa
Pros of Total.js
  • 6
    Async/Await
  • 5
    JavaScript
  • 1
    REST API
  • 5
    Fast
  • 5
    Rapid development
  • 4
    Great support
  • 4
    Low-code tools
  • 3
    UI components
  • 3
    Npm
  • 3
    Prebuild apps
  • 2
    Javascript
  • 2
    Develooment cloud
  • 2
    Open Source
  • 2
    Node.js
  • 1
    Easy to deploy
  • 1
    Resource aviable for learning

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Cons of Koa
Cons of Total.js
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    • 3
      Lack of source code documentation
    • 2
      Poor design
    • 2
      Poor community
    • 2
      Messes up global namespace and default prototypes
    • 2
      Poor design - 4000 line files
    • 2
      Developed as "one man show"
    • 1
      Memory leaks
    • 1
      Heavy relies on setTimeout
    • 1
      Prototype polution
    • 1
      Re-invented Lodash poorly
    • 1
      In-house bundler allows to commint syntax errors
    • 1
      In-house WS client (conflicts with rfc6455 spec)

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    What is 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.

    What is Total.js?

    It is a Framework for Node.js platfrom written in pure JavaScript similar to PHP's Laravel or Python's Django or ASP.NET MVC

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    What are some alternatives to Koa and Total.js?
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    Node.js
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