Top 23 JavaScript Express Projects

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1. Express

   1 773 66,770 9.0 JavaScript

   Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

   

   Project mention: Go for Node developers: creating an IDP from scratch - Set-up | dev.to | 2025-04-18

   Fiber: Go framework inspired in express.

2. Civic Auth

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   Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

   

3. javascript-testing-best-practices

   2 16 24,333 1.5 JavaScript

   📗🌐 🚢 Comprehensive and exhaustive JavaScript & Node.js testing best practices (July 2023)

   

4. Passport

   3 63 23,274 7.5 JavaScript

   Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.

   

5. Habitica

   4 176 12,747 9.8 JavaScript

   A habit tracker app which treats your goals like a Role Playing Game.

   

   Project mention: Kickstart Hacktoberfest with These Exciting Open Source Projects to Contribute To! 🚀 | dev.to | 2024-10-09

   💼 Project: Habitica 💡 Why Contribute: Habitica is a gamified task management app that helps users build better habits. It’s an open-source project built with JavaScript, and there are plenty of issues ranging from beginner-friendly bug fixes to feature enhancements.

6. art-template

   5 2 9,867 3.9 JavaScript

   High performance JavaScript templating engine

   

7. morgan

   6 9 8,034 3.2 JavaScript

   HTTP request logger middleware for node.js

   

   Project mention: How we built a Node.js Middleware to Log HTTP API Requests and Responses | dev.to | 2025-03-27

   Morgan

8. node-express-boilerplate

   7 13 7,248 2.0 JavaScript

   A boilerplate for building production-ready RESTful APIs using Node.js, Express, and Mongoose

   

   Project mention: 11 GitHub Repositories to learn NodeJs | dev.to | 2024-11-03

9. CodeRabbit

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   CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

   

10. serverless-express

    8 18 5,222 7.3 JavaScript

    Run Express and other Node.js frameworks on AWS Serverless technologies such as Lambda, API Gateway, Lambda@Edge, and more.

    

11. Grant

    9 5 4,144 5.3 JavaScript

    OAuth Proxy

    

12. nodejs-testing-best-practices

    10 15 3,907 7.8 JavaScript

    Beyond the basics of Node.js testing. Including a super-comprehensive best practices list and an example app (April 2025)

    

13. express-status-monitor

    11 5 3,617 0.0 JavaScript

    🚀 Realtime Monitoring solution for Node.js/Express.js apps, inspired by status.github.com, sponsored by https://dynobase.dev

    

14. rate-limiter-flexible

    12 9 3,220 7.5 JavaScript

    Atomic counters and rate limiting tools. Limit resource access at any scale.

    

15. hyper-express

    13 38 1,911 8.3 JavaScript

    High performance Node.js webserver with a simple-to-use API powered by uWebsockets.js under the hood.

    

16. generator

    14 1 1,834 2.9 JavaScript

    Express' application generator (by expressjs)

    

17. mern-ecommerce

    15 2 1,828 6.1 JavaScript

    :balloon: Fullstack MERN Ecommerce Application

    

18. btc-rpc-explorer

    16 39 1,667 8.1 JavaScript

    Database-free, self-hosted Bitcoin explorer, via RPC to Bitcoin Core.

    

19. accountill

    17 2 1,664 0.0 JavaScript

    Fullstack open source Invoicing application made with MongoDB, Express, React & Nodejs (MERN)

    

20. simple-react-full-stack

    18 2 1,624 0.0 JavaScript

    Boilerplate to build a full stack web application using React, Node.js, Express and Webpack.

    

21. graphql-upload

    19 6 1,435 7.9 JavaScript

    Middleware and a scalar Upload to add support for GraphQL multipart requests (file uploads via queries and mutations) to various Node.js GraphQL servers.

    

22. celebrate

    20 1 1,342 5.5 JavaScript

    A joi validation middleware for Express.

    

23. express-vue

    21 2 1,311 0.0 JavaScript

    Vue rendering engine for Express.js. Use .Vue files as templates using streams

    

24. apicache

    22 1 1,247 0.0 JavaScript

    Simple API-caching middleware for Express/Node.

    

25. littlelink-server

    23 7 993 8.3 JavaScript

    A lightweight, open source, stateless, and self-hosted alternative to linktree in a Docker container!

    

26. InfluxDB

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    InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

    

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