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Actually, if you take a look at the package.json of Next.js, you can actually find the express dependency below:
In Theo’s video, he seems to point out that it’s the difference between Stateless and Stateful design. However, I don’t have strong feelings about it personally. Although I have been using Nestjs for several projects, I always adopt a stateless design for scalability.
If we know what a backend framework does, we should be able to verify this statement. However, after searching for a little while, there seems to be no specific widely accepted definition of backend framework. Indeed, the framework is just a concept notion: a pre-prepared standard kit from which to work. In that case, let’s look at the self-positioned minimalist framework Express.js to see what it does.