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Library Highlight: ElysiaJS
There are many back-end frameworks around, but Elysia stands out as the only one being built on top of Bun.
Leveraging a brand new runtime can be a risky bet, but given Bun's own growing popularity it looks like that bet might pay off. If anything, it's certainly proving to be an interesting experiment!
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After three years of absence from the survey, it was high time we checked back on back-end frameworks. And no surprise here, Express is still the leader in terms of usage, even if Nest is progressing at a nice clip.
But things are more interesting when switching to the Satisfactiont tab, where the top three projects (Hono, Nitro, and ElysiaJS) are all new entrants, making this once of the most exciting categories to watch in years to come.
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oRPC offers typesafe APIs, which is a big selling point compared to traditional back-end solutions created before the TypeScript sea change.
My 2025 Pick: The Atproto Dev Community
Jenn Schiffer
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Respondents tend to use relatively few back-end frameworks, which might be why Express remains so dominant: once you've picked a back-end, you're unlikely to go out of your way to try out new options.
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While *Express is still widely used 15 years after its initial release, some are starting to wish the back-end ecosystem would move on to more modern alternatives.
This is especially true when it comes to providing typesafe, TypeScript-compatible APIs, which is something that venerable framework was never meant to do.
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API Design in Node.js, v5
