Maybe there are more API changes planned for v6 and v5 is the stepping stone?
Many thanks to the Express devs! It's been a reliable part of the stack for a long time.
For personal projects, I've been loving https://hono.dev/ The DX is fantastic and it runs in bun and CloudFlare workers. Shoutout to the hono developers!
For larger team projects, I end up using Fastify and NextJS. No real reason other than it's what's already running or other devs on the projects prefer it. But Express is always a great option.
I am really confused by this. Is it really that stable ? For any software that was released this back, I would have thought its abandoned. Are there no features that the community had demanded in this time
I switched from classic .NET Framework because they deprecated WinForms and WPF was not usable and they churned the entire damn platform and replaced it with alpha-quality software. How many UI frameworks, and how much other churn happened in the past 11 years there? Way too much, everybody is so fed up that the past decade of my career consisted of rewriting desktop apps to this stack.
NPM makes it quite easy to publish anything and for others to start using it. Just don't, stick with the proven solutions. There's - adjusted for user base - the same or worse amount of churn on Pypi and Nuget. If you wouldn't choose a random library nobody uses in the C# land, don't do it in the Node land. At least the Node libs continue to grow, while the Nuget stuff continues to die.