Recently I did a series for New Relic on three frameworks, both for APIs and web apps. I titled it “Evaluating Node.js Frameworks: hapi.js, Restify, and Geddy” and it is available via the New Relic Blog. To check out those frameworks give that blog entry a read, then below I’ve added one more framework to the list, Strongloop’s Loopback.

Strength: Very feature-rich generation of models, data structures and related enterprise-type needs. Solid enterprise-style API framework library.
Weakness: Complexity could be cumbersome unless it is needed. Not an immediate first choice for a startup going after lean and clean.
Great for: Enterprise API Services.

When I dove into StrongLoop, I immediately got the feel that I was using a fairly polished package of software. When installing with ‘sudo npm install -g strongloop’ I could easily see the other packages that are installed. But instead of the normal Node.js display of additional dependencies that are installed, the StrongLoop install displayed a number of additional options with a shiny ASCII logo.
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