I am a big fan of express and I've been using it to build RESTful APIs on Node.js which are easier to build. However, when our application started growing, we ended in a situation where express structure did not scale well and with more code splitting around, it was harder for us to maintain.
I am from C#/Java background where SOLID principles are heavily used. Frameworks like Java Spring / C# WebAPI are proven to create enterprise level applications.
I wanted to have a framework where I can reuse my existing C#/Java skills (reuse I mean MVC architecture, OOPS, SOLID, DI, Mocks ... yeah, strong typing). Unfortunately, I did not find a framework which meets my requirements (It should have less learning curve, minimalist codebase size, completely express compatible).
What do I mean by completely express compatible? Whatever express does, I must be able to do it even If I use a framework on top of it, when I have looked into Strongloop Loopback it was pretty good to use but It had a lot of documentation to go through and the frameworks are coupled, not really what I was looking for.
So I have created Dinoloop powered by Typescript (has interfaces, classes, abstract classes and strong oops). The package is pretty stable now.
With Dinoloop you can build enterprise level applications in a scalable architecture.
It uses Dependency Injection framework but you can configure any DI frameworks available in typescript. Dinoloop enables typescript to use as a Nodejs REST framework that helped me to maintain common typescript codebase for both angular and node projects.
So, Dinoloop is a perfect fit for typescript lovers and angular developers.
