JavaScript frameworks that work with Node.js

Node.js provides a server for other popular JS frameworks, including AngularJS, Express.js. Backbone.js, Socket.IO, and Connect.js. ReactJS was designed to run in the client browser, but it is often combined with a Node.js server.

As we shall see in the following descriptions, these frameworks are not necessarily exclusive, and are often combined in applications.

Express.js is a Node.js server framework

Express.js is a Node.js web application server framework, designed for building single-page, multi-page, and hybrid web applications. It is considered the "standard" server framework for Node.js. The package is installed with the command npm install express –save.

AngularJS extends static HTML with dynamic views

HTML was designed for static content, not for dynamic views. AngularJS extends HTML syntax with custom tag attributes. It provides model–view–controller (MVC) and model–view–viewmodel (MVVM) architectures in a frontend, client-side framework...