hyper-express

[o o]

Nodebb is using express for the API, right?

hyper-express

High performance Node.js webserver with a simple-to-use API powered by uWebsockets.js under the hood.. Latest version: 6.17.3, last published: 16 days ago. Start using hyper-express in your project by running `npm i hyper-express`. There are 18 other projects in the npm registry using hyper-express.

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My company just did some performance testing for our own API, and this package blew express away. It was a drop-in replacement for us.

[julian]

@o-o what exactly is the slowdown with express? We've never had a single issue performance wise in a decade

[o o]

It's an optimization, an opportunity to handle more traffic on less hardware.