# keithwhor/nodal

API Services Made Easy With Node.js

Repository: https://github.com/keithwhor/nodal
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nodal
Homepage: http://www.nodaljs.com/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2023-01-16T02:03:22+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4154, "days_push": 1326, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4482, forks 198 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:51.173367+00:00)

## What it is
Nodal is an opinionated Node.js framework for building stateless, data-centric CRUD API services backed by PostgreSQL. It provides a full-service architecture with models, migrations, and routing so teams can ship distributed API backends quickly.

## Use cases
- build a REST API backend for a mobile app
- create a CRUD API service backed by PostgreSQL
- spin up a stateless distributed API server in Node.js
- replace Parse with a self-hosted backend for prototyping
- build an IoT device data ingestion API
- scaffold a JSON API with models and migrations

## When to choose
- you need an opinionated, batteries-included framework for a PostgreSQL-backed JSON API
- you want stateless, horizontally scalable API services without making architectural decisions yourself
- you are prototyping a mobile or IoT backend quickly

## When to avoid
- you need realtime features like websockets or long polling, which Nodal explicitly does not support
- you want to render server-side HTML or static pages
- you prefer a minimal, unopinionated framework like Express
- you need a framework with a large active community and ecosystem

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-framework, api-framework, orm, http-server, routing, database
- domain: web-development, backend, apis, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: crud-apis, postgresql, stateless, opinionated-framework, mobile-backend, iot-backend, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- keithwhor/nodal (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.173367+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:20:32.452860+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/keithwhor/nodal (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.173367+00:00, sha 2cb091606153)
  - homepage: http://www.nodaljs.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:07:16.602351+00:00, sha 42cef8832972)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.