AdonisJS
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Batteries-included TypeScript framework for Node.js, praised for type safety and developer experience. Critics find it young, lacking features and verbose.
Batteries-included TypeScript framework for Node.js, praised for type safety and developer experience. Critics find it young, lacking features and verbose.
7 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 0
- approval share
- 100%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- Nobody criticizes itNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Batteries-included, Laravel-style framework for Node
“the type-safety and batteries-included feel of AdonisJS (think Laravel for Node)”
Comment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: A SaaS starter kit built with Nuxt 4 and AdonisJS v6” “it's pretty much the JS sibling of Laravel and RoR”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Returning to Rails in 2026” Type safety with TypeScript
“the type-safety and batteries-included feel of AdonisJS (think Laravel for Node)”
Comment from 15 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: A SaaS starter kit built with Nuxt 4 and AdonisJS v6” “I find the best DX with Adonis/nodejs and typescript.”
Comment from 25 Feb 2026 in “How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Young and lacking features
“Adonis is nice, but still young and lacking features. And in my experience very verbose compared to rails.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Returning to Rails in 2026” Verbose compared to Rails
“Adonis is nice, but still young and lacking features. And in my experience very verbose compared to rails.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Returning to Rails in 2026” Low popularity and little outside contribution
“it's not very popular and hasn't gotten much outside contribution... I seem to also recall something about the founder being too hostile”
Comment from 13 Mar 2026 in “Returning to Rails in 2026”
Other web frameworks people recommend
The four most recommended other web frameworks, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruby on Rails | 337 | 145 | 70% | 12 | 14 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Django | 277 | 97 | 74% | 12 | 15 yrs38 owners | Approved |
| Next.js | 127 | 256 | 33% | 12 | 3 yrs6 owners | — |
| Phoenix Framework | 85 | 11 | 89% | 12 | 8 yrs7 owners | Approved |
| AdonisJSThis page | 7 | 0 | 100% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
All 7 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The framework acts as guardrails and the LLM has to make fewer choices, so less of the token budget goes on bikeshedding.”
“I find Adonis way better (and ages more modern) than Django.”
“it's not very popular and hasn't gotten much outside contribution... I seem to also recall something about the founder being too hostile”
“Adonis is nice, but still young and lacking features. And in my experience very verbose compared to rails.”
“it's pretty much the JS sibling of Laravel and RoR”
“I find the best DX with Adonis/nodejs and typescript.”
“the type-safety and batteries-included feel of AdonisJS (think Laravel for Node)”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.