9 alternatives to express

expressjs/express — Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. (69,573 stars, MIT, dev-tools, testing, ui).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 24 licence-cleared components from expressjs/express itself.

The alternatives in detail

• seanmonstar/warp
  A super-easy, composable, web server framework for warp speeds.
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 10,383 stars · 45 components · search them
• tomaka/rouille
  Web framework in Rust
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,242 stars · 42 components · search them
• puma/puma
  A Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism
  score 4.5/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 7,924 stars · 63 components · search them
• enisdenjo/graphql-ws
  Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.
  score 7.2/10 · MIT permissive · 1,871 stars · 13 components · search them
• vapor/vapor
  💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
  score 6.8/10 · MIT permissive · 26,234 stars · 203 components · search them
• kartikk221/hyper-express
  High performance Node.js webserver with a simple-to-use API powered by uWebsockets.js under the hood.
  score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 2,035 stars · 27 components · search them
• enisdenjo/graphql-sse
  Zero-dependency, HTTP/1 safe, simple, GraphQL over Server-Sent Events Protocol server and client.
  score 4.9/10 · MIT permissive · 461 stars · 14 components · search them
• ferronweb/ferron
  A fast, modern web server built for production debugging.
  score 4.9/10 · MIT permissive · 2,194 stars · 431 components · search them
• gin-gonic/gin
  Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web
  score 2.8/10 · MIT permissive · 89,395 stars · 55 components · search them · alternatives

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