I’m looking at some web MVC frameworks (or stacks) for Node.js .

Almost all the node.js mvc libraries out there provide routing and templating.

Thus what I’m looking for in order of preference is:

1. Actively developed
2. Coffeescript friendly
3. Validation
4. Data binding
5. Some sort of transaction management.

I have never seen such an explosion of libraries in such short order like node.js has done. Naturally this makes it difficult but exciting picking a library/framework to use.

Here are the frameworks I have taken a liking too.

Name github watch/fork user count

1. Zappa 600/41
2. Batman.js 353/20
3. Geddy 531/33
4. Grasshopper 138/11
5. Coffeemate 28/4

I didn’t mention Express which has more 3000 watchers because most frameworks build on top of it.