In 2015 and 2016, Raygun has tested the Node.js framework against other popular frameworks including Hapi, Express.js, Restify and Koa. This year (2017), we’ve added some more frameworks due to popular request; Sails.js and Adonis.js.

The aim of these performance tests is to help you benchmark popular frameworks so you can see which one best suits your project.
As always, we’ve broken the results down and compared them to last year. We’ve also included instructions on how to reproduce the test.

Node.js performance tests were performed on the Ubuntu subsystem on Windows 10, along with a VM provisioned from Digital Ocean.

The tests only utilize the most basic capabilities of the frameworks in question, therefore the main goal was to show the relative overhead these frameworks add to the handling of a request. This is not a test of the absolute performance as this will vary greatly depending on the environment and network conditions.

This test also doesn’t cover the utility each framework provides and how this enables complex applications to be built with them.

Here’s a quick recap of what we found in our previous Node.js performance tests in 2015 and 2016.

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