Try feathersjs.com - it's really great. Some discussion about it here: hashnode.com/post/best-rest-api-framework-for-nod…

Feathers is probably the fastest and easiest. It uses Hooks like Middleware, yet you can use Express middleware in the Middlware, download the `npm i -g @feathersjs/cli`

Oh! You're really lucky - here's the article of development company called "The best Node.js framework for your project: Express.js, Koa.js or Sails.js" cleveroad.com/blog/the-best-node-js-framework-for… the best Node js framework is Express js

I Just say never use nodejs web framework. Nodejs is a big joke and realy not a langage.

Regards

Give this a read:

airpair.com/node.js/posts/nodejs-framework-compar…

I don't know what's the BEST framework out there, but what's BEST for me is Koa.js, I use it for the same reason @fibric has mentioned (Excluding passport.js).

At my work place, it's Express.js, Hapi.js or StrongLoop's Loopback framework (to quickly build REST APIs)

If you are looking for something quick, try LoopBack.

I do use koa.js because of promises. And chaining promises to describe what-happens-when is easy, simple, stupid. koa.js + passport.js to secure API's is also very straight forward.

Koa, Hapi, Express and Sails are all valid options... but I'm still trying to figure out which one suits better an API REST service. Any opinion?