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expressjs
express
JavaScript2009–2026
expressjs / express

express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

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72Distinct people
79Mentions
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69.7KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I highly recommend reading "The Do's and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web" [1] from MIT. It's rather old and not very well-known, but it's excellent. The concepts…

drderidder used a recommendation phrase. 3 indexed comments match. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:56:20 AM UTC.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year79 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2009-11-19 21:46:03 UTC to 2026-02-03 03:42:37 UTC.

0510152009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20092010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 2 submissions, 11 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 17 mentions; 8 submissions, 9 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 6 submissions, 7 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20092009-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20102010-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13211
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1789
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1367
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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sarabob·Nov 18, 2022
It has been interesting watching this develop, if for no other reason that Express is somewhat stuck after TJ left to make koa[0] and hasn't changed much since 2014. Express 5 has had no commits for 9 months - it's not dead, but it's not exactly thriving either. While there are alternatives to Express, none seem to have huge amounts of traction or do far more than a backend framework (nextjs, sveltekit), so maybe there is room for another framework. I'll never forget seeing this tweet[1] - what I considered a core pillar of the perl community discovered that after a short period of familiarization, a perl developer of many years could write code that is many times faster just by switching from perl to js. No deep voodoo, no special tricks - just write code in JS and handle 3x as many reqs/s. I'm glad to see that the rest of the mojo ecosy
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stem is coming along - Minion is a really nice, simple job queue that can piggyback on your existing postgres database without depending on redis or anything. Would be awesome to see a dynamodb backend someday. Hmmm. Unfortunately I'm not sure who the target market is - a typescript web framework selling itself as "Perl-grade" anything is not a good look for 99% of JS/TS devs. Maybe it's positioning itself as the logical migration path for companies moving away from perl? [0]https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844 [1]https://twitter.com/kraih/status/1392405140406210560
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