If you are building enterprise-grade Node.js applications with TypeScript, chances are you are already deeply familiar with NestJS. It has become the de-facto standard for opinionated, heavily structured, Angular-inspired backend development.

But the ecosystem is always evolving, and a formidable contender has entered the arena: Ditsmod.

Like NestJS, Ditsmod relies on decorators, Dependency Injection (DI), and a modular architecture. However, under the hood, it takes a noticeably different, highly explicit approach to provider scoping, extension initialization, and request lifecycles.

In this first article of the "NestJS vs. Ditsmod" series, we will explore the foundational architectural differences between the two frameworks.

1. Modules and explicit architecture