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some people use the word abandoned... some people use the word "finished"
indeed. I hate projects that make changes for no reason. If it does everything its supposed to do and does it well, it's just done. Go work on something else.
That is very debatable.
Eg: Performance is mediocre.
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Is Express.js still even maintained? Does it still adds new features? Also switched to Fastify. It has a great ecosystem and community. It's also easy to write custom plugins.
Why does it need to add new features? I've tried building production apps on top of server frameworks that are constantly innovating, and it's a massive PITA. You can't not update because there are security fixes that you need, but the API surface is constantly changing to support the new great thing. I think it's a good sign that the most popular server framework for JavaScript has finally stabilized and isn't innov…
Oh hi there Sveltekit
I mean, it depends on who your asking. Express has effectively been abandoned. In 2023 many would recommend Fastify as a go-to.
Has it been abandoned or is it just done? It's still sitting at 29 million downloads a week, so while it doesn't get frequent updates I wouldn't call it abandoned unless there are major security flaws that are being left unaddressed. Not every package needs to have multiple updates in a year.
I mean, it depends on who your asking. Express has effectively been abandoned. In 2023 many would recommend Fastify as a go-to.
Isn’t v5 of Express expecting to drop soon (albeit, that has been the promise for a while now)?
2023 I'm only thinking about express if a legacy app using it falls in my lap.
But, there are other great options to go with now, and you probably won't go wrong with fastify or hapi.
I love threads like this, it's so stereotypical JS. OP asks if it's the de-facto choice which it objectively is, but everyone recommends their pet project or favourite library instead.
By what measure is it objectively standard? I can't imagine someone starting an ExpressJS application today. Every place I have interviewed at in the past several months who uses Node on the back-end said they use NextJS.
I used to do more node work, and that was mostly pre v4. Express was the go-to. There’s more options out there now. I did a bit of research a few years back, and my go-to now is Fastify. https://fastify.dev/
I use Go for all backend. But sometimes I have dabbled in node using express.
Maybe if I ever have a need to do something with node I’ll try with this.
Cheers
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Has it been abandoned or is it just done? It's still sitting at 29 million downloads a week, so while it doesn't get frequent updates I wouldn't call it abandoned unless there are major security flaws that are being left unaddressed. Not every package needs to have multiple updates in a year.
Abandoned.