Express
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
1warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If Express is working well (and it should be, it's great) no need to change”
“Many sites could be built on the stack espoused by Alex Petros”
Caveats and dissent
“My Node+Express thing was the worst because it was all homegrown”
Often compared with
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Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) 6 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026) 4 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026) 4 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026) 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026) 3 mentions
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026) 3 mentions
Also written as Express.js. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 40
“FastAPI, Express/Hono”
“Node.js (Express/NestJS), PostgreSQL”
“Node.js, Fastify, Express, PostgreSQL”
“Backend: Node.js (Express), Python (Flask), Ruby on Rails”
“Express”
“Express.js”
“If Express is working well (and it should be, it's great) no need to change”
“Stack: Node.js, Express.js, React, MongoDB.”
“React ecosystem, Express, webpack”
“Express / React on Typescript”
“Express.JS”
“Technologies: Node.js, Javascript, TypeScript, Express.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL”
“FastAPI, Node.js, Express”
“Many sites could be built on the stack espoused by Alex Petros”
“are using Node/Express on top of a MySQL db”
“Express”
“Technologies: Node.js, Javascript, TypeScript, Express.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL”
“Technologies: Python, FastAPI, Django, TypeScript, Node.js, Express.js, React, PostgreSQL, Redis, kubernetes, AWS, GCP”
“Reactjs, Expressjs, Postgres, React native (expo)”
“unmodified Node servers (Express / Koa / Polka / hono via @hono/node-server / etc.) compile and run natively”
“Recently built and deployed a full-stack task management application using React, Express, Prisma, and PostgreSQL”
“express should have feature parity with Nest.js”
“My Node+Express thing was the worst because it was all homegrown”
“Express.js”
“Technologies: TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, Express, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis”
“Express server with payment middleware”
“we've been doing a few small projects using the Express MVC framework”
“Express”
“I use NodeJS with a highly structured ExpressJS app for the API”
“Hono over Express”
“Node.js + Express backend”
“Backend: Node.js/Express, Django, GraphQL”
“Express.js”
“Stack: Next.js 15, Express.js 5, Supabase PostgreSQL, Prisma ORM.”
“It uses Express”
“Express”
“Node.js (Express, NestJS)”
“Express”
“Express / React on Typescript”
“Backend: Node.js + Express 5”