The following command will install latest version of express.js globally on your machine so that every Node.js application on your machine can use it. Easy to connect with databases such as MongoDB, Redis, MySQL.Easy to serve static files and resources of your application.Allows you to define an error handling middleware.Easy to integrate with different template engines like Jade, Vash, EJS etc.Includes various middleware modules which you can use to perform additional tasks on request and response.Allows you to define routes of your application based on HTTP methods and URLs.Makes Node.js web application development fast and easy.So, any middleware which is based on connect will also work with Express.js. It provides various features that make web application development fast and easy which otherwise takes more time using only Node.js.Įxpress.js is based on the Node.js middleware module called connect which in turn uses http module. 'Express is a fast, unopinionated minimalist web framework for Node.js' - official web site: Įxpress.js is a web application framework for Node.js.

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