Express

Express is a popular framework for setting up web servers with Node.js.

Benefits

• Simplicity: Express does not enforce a strict project structure, making it easy to get started quickly
• Vast ecosystem: There is a vast ecosystem of packages and plugins for extending Express functionality
• Broad adoption and stability: Express has been around for a long time, and is used by many companies in production.
• Great for prototyping: Favored for its simplicity for building proof of concept applications

Downsides

• Some Express libraries are outdated and can degrade performance
• Compared to more optimized frameworks like Fastify and Node's built-in http server, Express has noticeable performance overhead
• Does not have built-in TypeScript support

Tutorials

These tutorials showcase various common use cases for express. The code examples are validated through the TypeScript bindings for express - you will need to copy the examples to your own computer and run TypeScript locally to see them in action.

Set up an Express application

You can now open http://localhost:8000 in your web browser to see the message that was sent.

Accept incoming requests

import express from 'express'
const app = express()
app.get('/', (req, res) => {
    res.send("")
})

Rendering HTML pages

Now that your server is running, you can start rendering HTML.