tinyhttp

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⚡ Tiny web framework as a replacement of Express

⚠ The project is in development. Please don't use in production.

tinyhttp is a modern Express-like web framework for Node.js. It uses a bare minimum amount of dependencies trying to avoid legacy hell.

Here is a short list of most important features that tinyhttp has:

⚙ Full Express middleware support
↪ Async middleware support
☑ Native ESM and CommonJS support
🚀 No legacy dependencies, just the JavaScript itself
🔨 Types out of the box
📦 6x smaller than Express

To get started, visit tinyhttp website.

Install

tinyhttp requires Node.js 12.4.0 or newer. It is recommended to use pnpm, although it isn't required.

# npm
npm i @tinyhttp/app
# pnpm
pnpm i @tinyhttp/app
# yarn
yarn add @tinyhttp/app

Docs

You can see the documentation here.

Get Started

The app structure is quite similar to Express, except that you need to import App from @tinyhttp/app instead of default import from express.

import { App } from '@tinyhttp/app'
import { logger } from '@tinyhttp/logger'

const app = new App()

app
  .use(function someMiddleware(req, res, next) {
    console.log('Did a request')
    next()
  })
  .get('/', (_, res) => {
    res.send('<h1>Hello World</h1>')
  })
  .get('/page/:page/', (req, res) => {
    res.status(200).send(`You just opened ${req.params.page}`)
  })
  .use(logger())
  .listen(3000)