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by brundolf 1775 days ago
I haven't been following the Deno community super closely; do you know if people have converged yet on a go-to web framework, similar to Express? Does this stabilization play into that progression at all?

Last I checked there were several promising-but-fragmented options, so I'm hoping the community has or will pick a "standard" answer for "I want to make a web service", since that seems like one of the headlining (the headlining?) usecases for headless JS

I'm also, and this is more off-topic, but I'm wondering if there's an answer for NextJS out there on its way. The latter is eating (a portion of) the world a little bit right now, and could singlehandedly keep some parts of the industry on Node.

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Oak [0] is the go-to web framework in Deno ecosystem, it has Koa-like API. There's also Opine [1], Drash [2] and some other that are also highly spoken of by folks at the Discord. AFAIK Oak used native HTTP bindings since their inception (if you were running with --unstable flag); and now that API is stabilized it will use it by default.

As for the NextJS; there are also a projects that try to mimic its API like AlephJS [3] and Fresh [4].

[0] https://github.com/oakserver/oak [1] https://github.com/asos-craigmorten/opine [2] https://github.com/drashland/deno-drash [3] https://github.com/alephjs/aleph.js [4] https://github.com/lucacasonato/fresh

Thanks for the info! Glad to hear that the ecosystem is coming along. I look forward to the day I get an opportunity to use Deno at work