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Description

tinyhttp is a modern Express-like web framework written in TypeScript and compiled to native ESM, that uses a bare minimum amount of dependencies trying to avoid legacy hell.

Here is a short list of most important features that tinyhttp has:

- ⚡ 2.3x faster than Express - ⚙ Full Express middleware support - ↪ Async middleware support - ☑ Native ESM and CommonJS support - 🚀 No legacy dependencies, just the JavaScript itself - 🔨 Types out of the box

Programming language: TypeScript

License: MIT License

Tags: Nodejs API Express Web Frameworks HTTP Framework TypeScript Server Node JavaScript REST Routing Commonjs App Web Request Router Middleware ESM

Latest version: v1.0.0

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Hapi

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Feathers

8.9 9.1 L5 tinyhttp VS Feathers

The API and real-time application framework
AdonisJs Framework

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🚀 The Node.js Framework highly focused on developer ergonomics, stability and confidence
Restify

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The future of Node.js REST development
Micro

8.5 4.5 tinyhttp VS Micro

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TypeGraphQL

8.2 7.0 tinyhttp VS TypeGraphQL

Create GraphQL schema and resolvers with TypeScript, using classes and decorators!
Quick Start

8.0 9.5 tinyhttp VS Quick Start

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MERN

7.9 0.0 L5 tinyhttp VS MERN

⛔️ DEPRECATED - Boilerplate for getting started with MERN stack
Moleculer

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:rocket: Progressive microservices framework for Node.js
ThinkJS

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Use full ES2015+ features to develop Node.js applications, Support TypeScript.
LoopBack

7.7 9.4 tinyhttp VS LoopBack

LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.
Derby

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Nodal

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7.1 0.0 L2 tinyhttp VS seneca

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6.4 0.0 L3 tinyhttp VS ActionHero

Actionhero is a realtime multi-transport nodejs API Server with integrated cluster capabilities and delayed tasks
Lad

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Build Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) based applications without the boilerplate
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Marble.js

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FoalTS

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Trails

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Handle errors in a simple, stable, consistent way
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elm

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Catberry

4.7 1.5 L4 tinyhttp VS Catberry

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Interfake

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dawson-cli

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sqs-producer

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QueryQL

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Node.js SDK for interacting with OpenAI Chat API.
Prim+RPC

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README

⚡ Tiny web framework as a replacement of Express

tinyhttp is a modern Express-like web framework written in TypeScript and compiled to native ESM, that uses a bare minimum amount of dependencies trying to avoid legacy hell.

Features

⚡ 2x faster than Express
⚙ Express middleware compat
↪ Async middleware support
☑ Native ESM and CommonJS support
🚀 No legacy dependencies, just the JavaScript itself
🔨 Types out of the box
🔥 Prebuilt middleware for modern Node.js

Visit tinyhttp website for docs, guides and middleware search.

Install

Node.js 12.4+ is required.

pnpm i @tinyhttp/app

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Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

v 1 r t l💡 🔌 📆 🚧 💻 Matt🔌 ⚠️ Nasmevka📖 elianiva💡 🚧 💻 ⚠️ Katja Lutz💡 Arnovsky🔌 💻 Rocktim Saikia🚇 💻 💡 Ahmad Reza💻 Ionel lupu💡 Tomi Kalmi📖 Luiginator💡 💻 Aneesh Relan💡 ⚠️ Roberto Ortega💡 Barciet Maëlann💡 shzmr💻 ⚠️ 💡 Egor Avakumov💡 Rashmi K A💻 Shubhi Agarwal⚠️ Maurizio⚠️ 💻 jkreller💡 Alan Carpilovsky⚠️ KoljaTM⚠️ ike📖 💡 Fabian Morón Zirfas🐛 Vitaly Baev⚠️ 🐛 omrilotan💻 📖 MVEMCJSUNPE💡 🐛 Leo Toneff💻 Calum Knott📖 🐛 Reinaldy Rafli💻 🐛 💡 Ganesh Pendyala📖 Maxim🐛 wasd845🐛 Ikko Ashimine📖 Stanislas📖 Laurin Quast💻 Rohan Sharma🐛 tbhmens💻 🐛 Marcos Henrique💡 massivefermion🔌 💡 Benjamin Selyem🐛 Aral Balkan📖 Sonny Piers📖 paolotiu💻 Anton Trofimenko💻 tomhooijenga💻 Sai Kiran Mukka💻 Oskari Groenroos💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

tinyhttp

🦄 0-legacy, tiny & fast web framework as a replacement of Express