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Express Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Express
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB β Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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PostgreSQL
Mirror of the official PostgreSQL GIT repository. Note that this is just a *mirror* - we don't work with pull requests on github. To contribute, please see https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Submitting_a_Patch
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Nest
A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript π
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Nodemon.io
Monitor for any changes in your node.js application and automatically restart the server - perfect for development
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Express discussion
Express reviews and mentions
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Understanding RESTful APIs
Node.js with Express (https://expressjs.com/)
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Building an API in Node.js without using any packages
So thatβs the first big downside of building a REST API without using packages like express.js - you have to build all the route handling yourself, plus add some support for middlewares.
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Enhancing the VS Code Agent Mode to integrate with Local tools using Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Express.js Documentation
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Not a Middy Fan
Express.js was created around the time callbacks were _the_ architecture in Node.js. The world, including UI, quickly found callbacks do not compose well, and void return values are hard to test because of side-effects. Promises were created so you could compose functions, but still have control where your side-effects go. This negates the need for middlewares / callbacks.
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Experimental Devvit Web Views
The Devvit team just announced a new experimental way to build WebView based apps for Reddit. Previously only static HTML/JS/CSS could be used. With this new version, it is possible to run server-side code through Node including spinning up an Express server.
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How to Handle File Uploads with Node.js and Express - Multer Edition
Basic knowledge of JavaScript and Express
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AI Integration in JavaScript: Parse Natural Language to JSON with Node + React
With that set, we can import callOpenAI on a controller. I am using express to manage the API endpoint.
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Reusable API proxy in just a few lines of JavaScript
The basis of my small API proxy is the NPM package http-proxy-middleware from Steven Chim, which I utilized to build a system that can be used via configuration for various endpoints and that runs on a server under the Node.js framework Express.
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Go for Node developers: creating an IDP from scratch - Set-up
Fiber: Go framework inspired in express.
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Verifying Cognito access tokens - Comparing three JWT packages for Lambda authorizers
These packages are not limited to Lambda. You can use them to validate tokens in Express servers running on EC2 instances or containers, for example.
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expressjs/express is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of Express is JavaScript.
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