Comparison with Other Frameworks

Comparison with Next

Feature	Vona	Next
Fullstack Mechanism	Frontend and backend separation	Frontend and backend integration
Backend Capability	Powerful, comparable to Nest/Spring	General
Admin-Dashboard Supports SSR	✅	❌
Dual-layer Tabs Navigation	✅	❌

• Fullstack Mechanism: Vona adopts a frontend-backend separation architecture. The frontend uses the Zova framework, and the built JS bundle is placed into the Vona backend for direct SSR rendering on the backend
  • The backend generates Swagger/OpenAPI Schema for generating API SDK on the frontend
  • The frontend generates types for icons, routes, and components for providing type hints on the backend
• Backend Capability: Vona provides more powerful and complete backend capabilities, easily handling the development of large business systems, including multi-tenancy, multi-database, multi-datasource, two-layer cache, queues, broadcast, scheduled tasks, distributed locks, DTO infer and generation, and more
• Admin-Dashboard Supports SSR: Provides full SSR support for Admin-Dashboard applications, including sidebar, multilingual support, light/dark themes, and brand color themes. This reduces page flicker on refresh and delivers a smoother user interaction experience
• Dual-layer Tabs Navigation: Vona supports dual-layer tabs navigation, enabling efficient page switching while maintaining page state

Comparison with Nest

Feature	Vona	Nest
Validation/OpenAPI	Unified Configuration	Has Redundant Configuration
DTO Infer and Generation	✅	❌
Multi-Tenant, Multi-Database, Multi-Datasource	Built-in	Third-party
AOP Programming	Controller Aspect, Internal Aspect, External Aspect	Controller Aspect

• Zod Schema: Vona generates a unified schema based on Zod4, which can be used for validation, Swagger/OpenAPI documentation generation, Form/Table dynamic rendering, Response data serialization, and other scenarios
• DTO Infer and Generation: Vona dynamically infer and generate DTOs to eliminate redundant type definitions and boost development productivity
• Multi-Tenant, Multi-Database, Multi-Datasource: Vona has built-in capabilities for multi-tenancy, multi-database, and multi-datasource, making it easy to handle large-scale business system development
• AOP Programming: Vona provides more complete AOP programming capabilities, including controller aspect, internal aspect, and external aspect. Nest only implements controller aspect

What is controller aspect?

• Middleware, Guard, Interceptor, Pipe, and Filter are all designed to enhance the controller’s capabilities, so they are collectively referred to as controller aspect

Comparison with Django Admin

Feature	Vona	Django Admin
Backend Tech Stack	NodeJS + Typescript	Python + Server-side template language
Frontend Tech Stack	Zova + Vue3 + Vite8 + Typescript	HTML + CSS + JS
SSR Mechanism	Isomorphic SSR	Server-side template rendering
Dual-layer Tabs Navigation	✅	❌

• Vona uses a frontend and backend separated architecture. The frontend uses the Zova framework, offering a more beautiful interface, cleaner code, and greater freedom to customize the interface and add new features