Apologies for the absence from Medium for quite a while. I have a got a series of articles, tutorials, reflections and code planned out and I can’t wait to share my journey with you through the…

Roberto Umbelino

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The post explores the author's experience with ElysiaJS, a runtime environment for building modern APIs. It discusses the features of ElysiaJS, such as end-to-end type safety and robust validation. The post also provides examples of code snippets to create a server using ElysiaJS.

First Look At ElysiaJS

Great alternative to express and node js. Much recommanded for the devs who wish and seek alternatives.

My one problem with this is it’s so dependent on bun…. I feel that bun isn’t mature enough to build Prod servers on

I am actively using this on a large project right now, and so far, I am happy with it, but the documentation, or relative lack thereof, makes it a bit of a chore in specific use cases. There’s some odd design choices in places, and finding out the “correct” way to implement some design patterns eats up a lot of time. I can’t argue with the performance, though, and the code itself is ridiculously clean once it’s there, but Elysia (and also hono) really suffers at times from being new and minimally documented in all but the simplest of use cases.

I like the fact that it used to be called ‘KingWorld’ once. <a href="https://github.com/elysiajs/elysia/commit/c0e88083cbc16a43b3a816eb242099fd9dc9625a" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">-&gt; First Commit</a>
But joking aside. I find the swagger plugin, with which you can produce documentation on the fly, and the end-to-end type safety exciting!