Perk
Optimized for developer happiness
Perk launched on July 29, 2016 with 6 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
What it does
Perk is an exceptionally well documented set of tools for building node web applications.
We believe that developer tools are only as good as their worst piece of documentation. Perk aims to always have complete, up to date and friendly documentation, so you're never stuck up the creek without a paddle. Lots of dev tools claim to make your life easier. The Perk rule of thumb is that it should never be harder to do something using Perk than to roll it on your own. Perk strikes a balance between providing a handful of useful pre-built features out of the box, but not forcing them down your throat. Perk is built on stable, tried and true libraries including Passport, Express, Redis and Knex. It may never have the flavor of the month JavaScript features, but we promise that you…from perkframework.com
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