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Muhammad Ali (Nerdjfpb)
Muhammad Ali (Nerdjfpb)

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Day 18 – Why Express JS ? - Learning Node JS In 30 Days [Mini series]

In last tutorial we learnt about installing express js using npm. But why express js and what are options we have ?

Frameworks helps us to write code easily and maintain a standard of our codes. This really needed when multiple team member are working on the same code.

Can you think how many node js framework are available right now ?

Actually many! I didn’t find a number to tell you. But I can listed some –

  • Express.js
  • Nest.js
  • Sails.js
  • Koa.js and many more…

See survey of 2018 — https://2018.stateofjs.com/back-end-frameworks/overview/
Express js is dominating when it’s time for a backend framework.

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Learning and using popular framework has a good benefits honestly. Because there is a huge community who can help you, also you can some decent jobs on the popular framework. But is this all the reason why I choose express ?

No there are more...

Express is

  • Fast & Simple
  • Speedy
  • Scale-able
  • easy to learn

So are you interested to learn more about express ?

You can see the graphical version here

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