Express.js
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Express.js, or simply Express, is a back end web application framework for Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. It has been called the de facto standard server framework for Node.js.
Key facts
- Software.name
- Express.js
- Software.logo
- Expressjs.png
- Software.logo class
- skin-invert
- Software.author
- TJ Holowaychuk
- Software.developer
- OpenJS Foundation and others
- Software.platform
- Node.js
- Software.programming language
- JavaScript
- Software.license
- MIT License
- Software.genre
- Web framework
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Express.js, or simply Express, is a back end web application framework for Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. It has been called the de facto standard server framework for Node.js.
The original author, TJ Holowaychuk, described it as a Sinatra-inspired server, meaning that it is relatively minimal with many features available as plugins. Express is the back-end component of popular development stacks like the MEAN, MERN or MEVN stack, together with the MongoDB database software and a JavaScript front-end framework or library.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Express.js” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.