Express alternatives and related modules

Based on the "Web Frameworks" category

• Meteor

  9.9 9.7 L2 Express VS Meteor

  An ultra-simple, database-everywhere, data-on-the-wire, pure-Javascript web framework. (You might like awesome-meteor)

• Next.js

  9.9 9.8 L5 Express VS Next.js

  Minimalistic framework for server-rendered React apps.

• Koa

  9.8 7.1 L4 Express VS Koa

  A new web framework designed by the team behind Express, which aims to be a smaller, more expressive, and more robust foundation for web applications and APIs.

• SailsJS

  9.7 7.7 L4 Express VS SailsJS

  An MVC web framework with a modern twist, supporting WebSockets, streams, and a data-driven API.

• Nuxt.js

  9.6 9.8 L5 Express VS Nuxt.js

  Minimalistic framework for server-rendered Vue.js apps.

• Nest

  9.3 9.6 Express VS Nest

  A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient and scalable server-side applications on top of TypeScript & JavaScript (ES6 / ES7 / ES8) heavily inspired by Angular 😻🚀

• LoopBack

  9.2 7.1 L3 Express VS LoopBack

  Powerful framework for creating REST APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.

• egg

  9.2 8.7 Express VS egg

  Born to build better enterprise frameworks and apps with Node.js & Koa

• Hapi

  9.0 8.5 L4 Express VS Hapi

  A rich framework for building applications and services.

• Feathers

  8.9 8.9 L5 Express VS Feathers

  A minimal and flexible microservice framework built in the spirit of Express.

• Restify

  8.8 7.9 L4 Express VS Restify

  A node framework built specifically to enable you to build correct REST web services.

• Micro

  8.5 2.7 Express VS Micro

  Minimalistic microservice framework with an async approach.

• MERN

  8.3 3.9 L5 Express VS MERN

  Easily build production-ready universal apps with MongoDB, Express, React, and webpack.

• verdaccio

  8.3 9.5 Express VS verdaccio

  A lightweight private npm proxy registry

• ThinkJS

  8.1 3.8 L2 Express VS ThinkJS

  Framework with ES2015+ support, WebSockets, REST API.

• AdonisJs Framework

  8.0 8.2 L4 Express VS AdonisJs Framework

  NodeJs Web Application Framework. Makes it easy for you to write webapps with less code 😃

• Nodal

  7.7 5.6 L4 Express VS Nodal

  API Services Made Easy With Node.js

• Derby

  7.6 5.6 L5 Express VS Derby

  MVC framework, making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.

• seneca

  7.2 7.8 L2 Express VS seneca

  Toolkit for writing microservices.

• ActionHero

  6.5 8.1 L3 Express VS ActionHero

  Framework for making reusable & scalable APIs for TCP sockets, WebSockets, and HTTP clients.

• Moleculer

  6.3 9.5 Express VS Moleculer

  Fast & powerful microservices framework.

• Trails

  6.1 0.0 L5 Express VS Trails

  Modern Web Application Framework for Node.js.

• lychee.js

  5.2 8.2 L4 Express VS lychee.js

  Next-Gen Isomorphic Application Engine for Embedded, Console, Mobile, Server and Desktop

• Interfake

  5.1 0.0 L4 Express VS Interfake

  Rapid prototyping framework for making mock HTTP APIs, with a Node.js, command-line and HTTP interface.

• sqs-consumer

  5.1 2.4 L5 Express VS sqs-consumer

  Build SQS-based Node applications without the boilerplate

• Catberry

  5.1 0.0 L4 Express VS Catberry

  Framework with Flux architecture, isomorphic web-components, and progressive rendering.

• Hemera

  5.0 7.8 Express VS Hemera

  Write reliable and fault-tolerant microservices with NATS.

• dawson-cli

  4.9 0.7 L4 Express VS dawson-cli

  A serverless web framework for Node.js on AWS (CloudFormation, CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda)

• elm

  4.7 3.1 Express VS elm

  A delightful language for reliable webapps.

• AdonisJs Application

  4.5 0.0 Express VS AdonisJs Application

  This repo is the pre-configured project structure to be used for creating ambitious web servers using AdonisJs.

• Perk

  3.0 0.0 L5 Express VS Perk

  A node framework built on three core tenets: documentation, stability and balance.

• sqs-producer

  2.5 3.8 L5 Express VS sqs-producer

  Simple scaffolding for applications that produce SQS messages

• Restberry

  2.3 0.0 L5 Express VS Restberry

  Framework for setting up RESTful JSON APIs, applied to your database models without needing to write any code.

• express-version-route

  1.5 4.6 Express VS express-version-route

  A Node.js express middleware that implements API versioning for route controllers

• AWS Lambda Router for NodeJS

  0.6 0.0 L5 Express VS AWS Lambda Router for NodeJS

  AWS Lambda router for NodeJS

• FortJs

  0.5 8.9 Express VS FortJs

  Fort based MVC web framework

• @Sugoi\core

  0.5 5.3 Express VS @Sugoi\core

  Core utils

• @Sugoi/Server

  0.5 7.4 Express VS @Sugoi/Server

  typescript web server

• wrapi

  0.4 1.0 Express VS wrapi

  🎁 Wrap Restful APIs as callable functions.

• docx-to-pdf-on-AWS-Lambda

  0.4 2.9 Express VS docx-to-pdf-on-AWS-Lambda

  Microsoft Word doc/docx to PDF conversion on AWS Lambda using Node.js

• khalis

  0.2 7.1 Express VS khalis

  khalis

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