top | item 27288797

As of today, express has not received an update in two years

10 points| RandomException | 4 years ago |reddit.com

5 comments

As long as it gets security updates (last commit in the GitHub repo seem 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

bluefirebrand|4 years ago

This is my take too.

I don't really have any feature requests for Express. I guess I'm curious what people think it's missing that I don't really know about or think about.

Zababa|4 years ago

I've always found it relatively strange that in the JS world, where the frontend is moving really really fast, Express has always been the main choice for backends with no real challengers through the years. Is this due to a difference of culture between the frontend and the backend? Or maybe the lack of backing by a big company? Angular was backed by Google and was replaced by React backed by Facebook, since then Vue and Svelte became popular but not at the level of React. On the other hand, Go (backed by Google) became really popular on the backend.

killingtime74|4 years ago

Most software has a limited lifespan, why should this be any different

nonsen|4 years ago

Do you consider it to be expired?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Just as long as it gets fixed when it's broke.