Backend
Express Development
Minimal and predictable, for focused HTTP services.
Express does very little on purpose, and that has kept it relevant for over a decade. It routes HTTP requests and gets out of the way; everything else is a decision you make explicitly.
That minimalism is a genuine strength for a service with one job — a webhook receiver, a proxy, a small internal API — where the entire codebase fits in a reader's head and a framework's conventions would be more to learn than the service itself.
Why we use it
We use Express for narrow services: something that receives webhooks, transforms a payload, or fronts a single integration. Below a certain size, structure is cost rather than benefit.
Once a service grows past a handful of domains we move to NestJS, because Express's freedom becomes ambiguity — every project invents its own conventions, and the next developer has to learn each one from scratch.
Planning a Express project?
We will tell you honestly whether it is the right choice for what you are building.