The latest articles on DEV Community by Sam Sverko (@samsverko). https://dev.to/samsverko https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F313056%2Fbdea9bb8-a328-42ca-b2bd-f1ce2cf6a7b7.jpg https://dev.to/samsverko en Sam Sverko Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:38:33 +0000 https://dev.to/samsverko/is-express-js-still-relevant-hc2 https://dev.to/samsverko/is-express-js-still-relevant-hc2 <p>I remember recently reading an article mentioning that using Express as your app's web server is something of the past (of course I can't find it now, sadly).</p> <p>Upon looking in on the <a href="http://expressjs.com/">Express website</a>, the footer indicates that the site was last updated in 2017.</p> <p>Additionally, checking out their <a href="https://github.com/expressjs/express/">GitHub page</a>, the last commit was back in May 2019.</p> <p>Does anyone use Express, or have any insight if this is a framework to pursue in 2020?</p> <p>Are there other lightweight server frameworks that you use for your Node projects?</p> <p>I'm definitely an advocate of the <a href="https://leanweb.dev/">lean web</a>, and am slowly learning my way to build a full stack website (Node and MongoDB for backend goodies). The less code and dependencies overall the better :)</p> javascript npm node