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For JavaScript and Perl there is already Minion, which relies on listen/notify + FOR UPDATE SKIP LOCKED.

https://github.com/mojolicious/minion.js

https://github.com/mojolicious/minion

TAP is awesome when you've got big projects with tests in multiple languages. Got tests written in bash, perl and node? No problem, just combine the results with a single test runner.

Matrix is the way to go for FOSS.

They are completely separate programming languages. Go for the original to get the real Perl experience with all the good and bad.

Not to be confused with the now more than a decade old web framework for Perl, and most popular module on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/Mojo

Or it's port to TypeScript: https://mojojs.org

Express middleware support is on the planned feature list for 2.0 and beyond. Could also be implemented as a 3rd party plugin using the existing hook API though. https://github.com/mojolicious/mojo.js/issues/66

Wow, that's a reference i've not seen in a long time. :) I think that Austin Powers joke has not existed anymore in the parent framework for like 8 years!

Hi, Mojolicious founder here. The "Perl grade" is meant to be a cheeky callback to Perl's famous backwards compatibility (you can run pretty much any Perl code written in the past 30 years with the latest Perl unchanged...yada yada). Perhaps it is a bit too subtle.

Back when i started with Node, one of the first problems i constantly ran into was some NPM module deep down in my node_modules folder breaking its API in a minor version bump and causing hours of cleanup work. So pretty early on avoiding this issue became a priority for the mojo.js port, and i see it as one of the main niches for us to corner. You want to write a fast JS/TS web service that still works in 10 years? Use mojo.js!

Maybe you've got a suggestion for how to better communicate this idea?

That's a good point, we should probably dial down the nostalgia a bit and give it a more distinctive identity.

Being able to use features like async/await consistently has definitely opened many doors for the port and made a lot of APIs more elegant. It's also quite fun trying to make more parts of the framework compatible with WHATWG APIs.

Just in case you missed it, Mojolicious is also available for TypeScript now, and the developer experience is pretty close to the Perl original. ;) https://mojojs.org