polka

Express is still popular, but a lot projects these days use a full-stack framework like Next.js, SvelteKit, etc. Fastify, NestJS (bleh), Koa, Hono are the modern replacements for express, none of them have caught on as a standard though. My personal favorite for small projects is Polka (https://github.com/lukeed/polka), when I'm not using Go instead.

lukeed has several extremely popular npm packages/libs which share a lot in common: - their twitter following is used to boost newly released packages - they were released as alternatives to existing packages/libs with the flashy promise of being smaller, less complicated, faster - negative feedback is rebuffed as "an attack" - they're all very green - they lack features and stability of the more mature packages they aim to supplant - once released and popular, they cease getting frequent updates Now, yes this is a generalization. It doesn't apply to all of their packages, and not at the same point in time. But there is a pattern there. Some quick diving into the author's Github account, and their more popular repos shows the pattern. It's also clear that this was a choice made by a Svelte contributor to use their own package for "officia

> sveltekit provides some kind of thin layer on top of express It doesn't use express, but something named polka [1], which is much less mature. Bugs in polka have caused downtime and remote DOS vulnerabilities in my sveltekit app multiple times. [1] https://github.com/lukeed/polka