expressjs/express on Hacker News

I can imagine a few maintainers might appreciate that ability ( https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20is%3A... ).

comment by jscyc · 2026-02-03 · in GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

Holy cow, what a mess - https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/6956

comment by jcims · 2026-01-22 · in We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

…video is a huge source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez8F0nW6S Check the closed PR's on express https://github.com/expressjs/express Yikes!

comment by vablings · 2026-01-22 · in We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports

…any indication. It was a very good reason for me to be surprised and annoyed at that time. [1] https://github.com/expressjs/express/commit/76e8bfa1dcb7b293...

comment by lifthrasiir · 2024-10-07 · in How do HTTP servers figure out Content-Length?

https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Acl...

comment by PixelForg · 2024-10-05 · in 炊紙(kashikishi) is a text editor that utilizes GPU to edit text in a 3D space

…- Vue overtook Angular in usage - zombie Express still dominates (context: v5 is nowhere to be seen https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/4920 ) - voracious Next (with not so great sentiment in comments) - strong TS preference over…

comment by morbicer · 2024-06-27 · in State of JavaScript 2023

…- Vue overtook Angular in usage - zombie Express still dominates (context: v5 is nowhere to be seen https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/4920 ) - voracious Next (with not so great sentiment in comments) - strong TS preference over…

comment by morbicer · 2024-06-27 · in State of JavaScript 2023

https://github.com/expressjs/express/blob/5.0/History.md

comment by rareitem · 2024-05-02 · in Express 5.0 – Last Push

Wild, this 5.0 release has been cooking since 2014: https://github.com/expressjs/express/blob/5.x/History.md#500... That’s also the full 5.0 change log so far for anyone interested.

comment by blopker · 2024-05-01 · in Express 5.0 – Last Push

They've now added a GitHub action to detect spam pull requests: https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/5480/files

comment by nailer · 2024-02-14 · in Express.js repo swamped with spam PRs thanks to YouTube tutorial

And that's been in production for over 8 years https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2755

comment by pcthrowaway · 2023-12-29 · in Cold-blooded software

Express v5 is allegedly coming out in the near future ( https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/4920 )

comment by rareitem · 2023-12-29 · in Cold-blooded software

…but judging from users' comments on this issue about the release plans, it seems to work just fine: https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/4920 The maintainer said this three months ago in a comment on that issue: > Express 5 is…

comment by cipheredStones · 2023-04-19 · in Node.js 20 is now available

…it's positioning itself as the logical migration path for companies moving away from perl? [0] https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844 [1] https://twitter.com/kraih/status/1392405140406210560

comment by sarabob · 2022-11-18 · in Mojo.js is a port of Perl's Mojolicious to TypeScript

…to be Jan 2021 [1]), I'm fine with an ancient (but stable) dinosaur and all of its weird kinks [1] https://github.com/expressjs/express

comment by trinovantes · 2021-05-26 · in As of today, express has not received an update in two years

…October 2018. We are still waiting for http2 (2 years) or better support for promises (3 years). https://github.com/expressjs/express/tree/5.0 https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/4196 https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2761…

comment by Chyzwar · 2020-03-01 · in ExpressJS vs. Actix-Web: performance and running cost comparison

Links: - - - https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls https://thenewstack.io/node-js-foundation-adopts-express-fra... https://foundation.nodejs.org/ https://openjsf.org/projects/

comment by johnnyAghands · 2019-08-01 · in Ask HN: Is Express Sick?

…there's nothing frameworks need to do, it's just a matter of swapping out the HTTP server (e.x. https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2364#issuecommen... ) or maybe even just sticking an HTTP/2-compatible reverse proxy close to the…

comment by tlrobinson · 2019-03-08 · in Stop Wasting Connections, Use HTTP Keep-Alive

express does not have dependency on yummy https://github.com/expressjs/express/blob/master/package.jso...

comment by sAbakumoff · 2018-09-25 · in I Peeked into My Node_Modules Directory and You Won’t Believe What Happened Next

…of the concepts is simple and clear. [1] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/webauth:sec10.pdf [2] https://github.com/expressjs/express/blob/master/examples/au... [3] https://expressjs.com/2x/screencasts.html

comment by drderidder · 2018-01-16 · in Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?

…also the 'spdy' module for http2 despite the name. It's what express.js supports for HTTP/2. [1]: https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2364

comment by tannhaeuser · 2017-08-05 · in Node.js: Initial experimental implementation of HTTP/2

…flow "Express", like [1]. Beautiful work nonetheless. [0] https://github.com/senchalabs/connect [1] https://github.com/expressjs/express

comment by svckr · 2017-06-20 · in Connect: behind the front-end experience

…but then there was no follow-up since. Insightful and entertaining discussion from begin of year: https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844 Seems like Doug (maintainer of express.js) could need some help but is he prepared to…

comment by tannhaeuser · 2016-11-29 · in Why I’m thankful for JavaScript fatigue

…Node.js https://nodejs.org/ and learn to use Express (it's a simpler version than Glazed) at https://github.com/expressjs/express (see examples folder)

comment by niftylettuce · 2016-06-14 · in Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

…dying?' [1] that contains all of the events, issues and comments from Doug, TJ, SL and IBM. [1] - https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844

comment by aeb · 2016-03-21 · in The Unbelievable History of the Express JavaScript Framework

Presumably 'technical committee'. https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2895

comment by packetized · 2016-02-26 · in “I am closing down Express 5.0”

…on the heels of some other issues [0] last month, around Doug's involvement in the project. [0] https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2844 Edit: To be clear, this is in no way meant to impugn Doug's extensive contributions to Express.

comment by packetized · 2016-02-26 · in “I am closing down Express 5.0”

…don't hand the keys to anyone who isn't a trusted driver Here's a link that explains what happened https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2264 > just be the best dev/leader you can be ... Oh come on! We should be thankful for the…

comment by jeswin · 2016-01-17 · in Is Express.js dying?

…of the transfer of the Express repo's ownership to Strongloop occurred here in June 2014: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2264 Back then, many in the community were surprised by the sponsorship (sale?) of the project and…

comment by creamyhorror · 2016-01-17 · in Is Express.js dying?

Well here is the answer from the guy who is still maintaining it: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2827 The link is from the fifth comment. When developing in node it makes a lot of sense to use lots of different modules for…

comment by egroat · 2016-01-17 · in Is Express.js dying?

…install directly from GitHub: npm install visionmedia/express Or any git repo: npm install git+https://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git npm install git+ssh://git@github.com/visionmedia/express.git

comment by simplify · 2016-01-13 · in Lodash 4.0.0 is out

…at DailyJS. DailyJS in general was a great blog that is now closed, but the archives are still up. https://github.com/strongloop/express http://dailyjs.com/framework-index/

comment by adamcw · 2015-07-24 · in Ask HN: Can you suggest some good JavaScript projects to read and learn?

…collaborate well on software. In this case it just led to resolving a misunderstanding on my part: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2464 At the bottom you can see I tipped some BTC. I recommend everyone should have a little…

comment by malgorithms · 2015-04-07 · in Keybase.io

…mention that Netflix could have consulted the express maintainers (us) but didn't. Source: myself - https://github.com/strongloop/express/pull/2237#issuecomment...

comment by Fishrock123 · 2014-11-20 · in Node.js in Flame Graphs

NodeJS Project has already a similar issue about recursive route matching. https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2412

comment by drinchev · 2014-11-19 · in Node.js in Flame Graphs

or you could just write it as a single CLI command: https://github.com/strongloop/express/blob/master/package.js...

comment by jongleberry · 2014-09-24 · in Istanbul: A JavaScript code coverage tool written in JS

Some more context: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2264 Overall, the FOSS arena is a crazy place

comment by fideloper · 2014-07-30 · in Strongloop and Express

visionmedia mentions a settlement here [1]. [1]: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2264#issuecomme...

comment by idlewan · 2014-07-30 · in Open Source Dickishness (Express sold to StrongLoop)

for the discussion between strongloop and the current maintainers: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2264

comment by jongleberry · 2014-07-29 · in TJ Holowaychuk Passes Sponsorship of Express to StrongLoop

…been the dominant framework for Node.js since 2009-2010. What frameworks are you talking about? [1] https://github.com/visionmedia/express

comment by fenguin · 2014-05-21 · in Choosing a Web Framework/Language Combo for the Next Decade

3.x to 4.x Migration guide: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/Migrating-from-3...

comment by sgy · 2014-04-11 · in ExpressJS 4.0 has been released

If you're also wondering about what the changes were for 4.0 https://github.com/visionmedia/express/blob/master/History.m...

comment by jpdlla · 2014-04-11 · in ExpressJS 4.0 has been released

…for 3 days now. This is very good news for me. Also, how to migrate guide can be found here: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/Migrating%20from...

comment by batuhanicoz · 2014-04-11 · in ExpressJS 4.0 has been released

And here are the new features in Express 4.x: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/New-features-in-...

comment by zzzaim · 2014-04-11 · in ExpressJS 4.0 has been released

Express is going this way too, check out 4.x's roadmap: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki/4.x-roadmap Does the community hate Express? You can't really hate that much on it considering that TJ's one of those who's leading the…

comment by chenglou · 2013-08-07 · in Why Nobody Should Use Rails

…his mind and he was even fairly polite about it in the GitHub discussion. It's stuff like this: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/issues/1613 that makes me lose respect for people.

comment by jameswyse · 2013-05-08 · in It’s all about being productive

Here's a few sources I really liked: * Express - https://github.com/visionmedia/express - I don't like TJ's coding style, and general trolling of CoffeeScript, but this is a really great, clean and tiny codebase. (As well as all the…

comment by radagaisus · 2012-09-24 · in Reading Other People's Code

…interested in beautiful Javascript in Node.js, I love the examples posted on Express' Github repo: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples/

comment by zzaman · 2012-03-26 · in Examples of beautiful Javascript

There's Express: http://expressjs.com/ or https://github.com/visionmedia/express

comment by glassx · 2012-03-25 · in Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for Node.js

…example of an mvc style express application, then look at the examples provided with express: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples/... Again, there are many ways to organize your applications, just look around at…

comment by chapel · 2011-12-12 · in Node.js modules you should know about: socket.io