---
title: "Next, Nuxt or Nest? Comparing Node.js Frameworks"
publication: "Node Weekly"
issue: 284
published_at: "2019-04-18"
canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/284"
---

The latest Node.js news, articles, tools, and projects.       

#284 — April 18, 2019 

[Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/284)   

🐣 **Happy Easter!** Due to the imminent Easter weekend, we're keeping things a little shorter this week :-)  

Node Weekly   

[How New Node.js Features Are Helping Native Addons Be (Almost) On Par With JS Modules](https://medium.com/the-node-js-collection/new-features-bring-native-add-ons-close-to-being-on-par-with-js-modules-cd4f9b8e4b4) — A neat look at how native add-ons, a part of Node since the beginning, have gotten better thanks to N-API and support for module unloading and loading native add-ons more than once. 

Gabriel Schulhof   

[Choosing The Right Node.js Framework: Next, Nuxt, Nest?](https://nodesource.com/blog/next-nuxt-nest) — A handy examination of the differences between three popular server-side rendering frameworks. 

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[Testing Node's Experimental New Performance Hooks](https://blog.logrocket.com/experimental-node-js-testing-the-new-performance-hooks-31fcdd2a747e) — A practical look, with examples, of using the experimental performance hooks currently available in Node 11.13. 

Fernando Doglio   

[Nightwatch: Automated Webapp End-to-End Testing Framework](http://nightwatchjs.org/) — Powered by Node and the W3C Webdriver, Nightwatch provides a structure for performing automated browser testing. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch) and [example scripts.](https://github.com/nightwatchjs/nightwatch/tree/master/examples/tests) 

Andrei Rusu   

▶[Getting Started with Node on Google Cloud Functions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgivoBkvS5o) — A really nice introduction to Google Cloud Functions (Google’s answer to AWS Lambda, essentially) using both the Web-based console and the `gcloud` CLI tools. _If you're on the serverless train, check out [our serverless newsletter!](https://serverless.email/?utm_source=node&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cross_promo&utm_content=284)_ 

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🔧 Code and Tools  

[Node v8.16.0 (LTS) Released](https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v8.16.0/) — Two minor changes to `n-api` for the (almost) legacy Node release. 

Node.js Foundation   

[file-type: Detect The File Type of a Buffer/Uint8Array](https://github.com/sindresorhus/file-type) — For example, give it the raw data from a PNG file, and it’ll tell you it’s a PNG file, plus its MIME type. 

Sindre Sorhus   

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[deploy-node-app: Deploy A Node App to Kubernetes with a Single Command](https://github.com/kubesail/deploy-node-app) — Uses Docker and kubectl behind the scenes and supports any Kubernetes cluster. 

KubeSail   

[A Simple Template for Building REST APIs using Node and Fastify](https://github.com/majikarp/node-rest-api-template) 

Marty Jacobs   

[node-mssql: A Microsoft SQL Server Client for Node](https://github.com/tediousjs/node-mssql) — Works cross-platform. 

Patrik Simek and contributors   

[limitrr: Rate Limiting and Response Delaying using Redis](https://github.com/eddiejibson/limitrr) — Includes middleware functions for Express. 

Edward Jibson   

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[Forever 1.0: A CLI Tool to Ensure A Script Runs Continuously](https://github.com/foreverjs/forever) 

Charlie Robbins and Contributors   

[Envalid: Environment Variable Validation and Access](https://github.com/af/envalid) — Lets you enforce that you want certain environment variables present and what sort of data they should contain. 

Aaron Franks  

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