SPspicypete·May 20, 2025Submission
4 points · Open discussiondimdenGD
ultimate-express
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dimdenGD / ultimate-express
ultimate-express
The Ultimate Express. Fastest http server with full Express compatibility, based on µWebSockets.
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The Ultimate Express. Fastest http server with full Express compatibility, based on µWebSockets.
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| Sep 2024 | 2024-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Oct 2024 | 2024-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2024 | 2024-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2024 | 2024-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2025 | 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2025 | 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2025 | 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| May 2025 | 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesShow HN: UltimateExpress – 5x faster HTTP server with full Express compatibility
For the past few weeks I've been working on Ultimate Express - https://github.com/dimdenGD/ultimate-express
It's complete reimplementation of Express, with support for all APIs, except built on top of uWebSockets. It's the only library that fully implements Express' API while using uWS.
It's about 5 times faster than Express. Please check Github for more benchmark info. I have started replacing Express with this library in my projects and performance improved by 1.5-4 times depending on route. In 1 case file serving throughput increased from 230 MB/sec to 800 MB/sec.
Please keep in mind that it's a very new library and there could be bugs. Always test your application after switching!
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