Interesting that the two responses here criticize AdonisJS for only supporting SQL instead of MongoDB. SQL over MongoDB is one of AdonisJS's strengths in my opinion, especially that it uses one of the ORMs built on top of the query-builder knex.js. That aside, AdonisJS hopefully will not change the way we do NodeJS App development. A long-time criticism of NodeJS is that there hasn't been a large Rails style framework. AdonisJS fulfills this role and is inviting to outsiders who are looking for one. To outsiders looking for Rails, Express/Hapi/Koa/Feathers/Fastify etc. are "not frameworks, just routers". People who have been doing backend NodeJS know the truth though: the NPM modules ecosystem is our framework, and we like it this way better.