This guide uses Restify, but it's always worthwhile considering a range of the options and ideally designing and running tests that consider the specific characteristics of the system you're building. In this recent performance benchmark, we see Hapi, Express, Koa, and Restify are all in a similar ballpark. API performance is clearly of high priority and deserves special mention.

In essence, we're avoiding potential pitfalls by picking the 'shiny new thing' and focussing on the most important factors when it comes to building a REST API: developer experience, performance (and the software -ilities), along with support and availability of knowledge/experience within the JavaScript community.

There are a few reasons to choose Restify and Mongo. For this guide, we're working with Restify and Mongo. With the multitude of JavaScript frameworks and databases available nowadays, there are countless options for building APIs. Clone the Github repo to get the full working project. Update for August 2017: This guide has been updated for Restify 5 and Mongo 3.4 with modern Javascript practices.

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