Feathers
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An open source REST and realtime API layer for modern applications.

Feathers is *a batteries included but entirely optional* minimal web
application framework.

At its core, Feathers is a set of tools and an architecture pattern that
make it easy to create scalable REST APIs and real-time applications.
With Feathers, you can literally build prototypes in minutes and
production-ready apps in days.

Feathers achieves this by being the glue code between some amazing
battle-tested open-source technologies - adding a few minimal
abstractions and introducing an application architecture that is easier
to understand, maintain, and scale than the traditional MVC
architecture.

If you’re interested, you can read more about `how and why Feathers came
to
be <https://blog.feathersjs.com/why-we-built-the-best-web-framework-you-ve-probably-never-heard-of-until-now-176afc5c6aac>`_
or find out more about its
`features <https://feathersjs.com/features>`_ and `how Feathers
compares to others <https://feathersjs.com/comparison>`_.

If you’ve decided that Feathers might be for you, feel free to dive
right in and :doc:`./guides/basics/readme`.

You can find this documentation as a PDF
`here <https://github.com/feathersjs/docs/raw/master/feathersjs.pdf>`_.

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