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Express.js, or simply Express, is a back end web application framework for building RESTful APIs with Node.js, released as free and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web applications and APIs. [2] It has been called the de facto standard server framework for Node.js. [3]
Express.js (also referred to as Express) is a modular web application framework package for Node.js. [9]While Express is capable of acting as an internet-facing web server, even supporting SSL/TLS out of the box, it is often used in conjunction with a reverse proxy such as NGINX or Apache for performance reasons.
In February 2017, Kamil Myśliwiec was inspired by Angular to build a Node.js-based framework with an architecture based on Socket.IO and Express. [1] [3] According to the NestJS GitHub repository, the first tagged release, version 4.4.0, was on November 23, 2017.
Node.js relies on nghttp2 for HTTP support. As of version 20, Node.js uses the ada library which provides up-to-date WHATWG URL compliance. As of version 19.5, Node.js uses the simdutf library for fast Unicode validation and transcoding. As of version 21.3, Node.js uses the simdjson library for fast JSON parsing.
V8 is a JavaScript and WebAssembly engine developed by Google for its Chrome browser. [1] [4] V8 is free and open-source software that is part of the Chromium project and also used separately in non-browser contexts, notably the Node.js runtime system. [1]
PM2 or Process Manager 2, is an Open Source, production ready Node.js process manager. Some key features of PM2 are automatic application load balancing, declarative application configuration, deployment system and monitoring. Started in 2013 by Alexandre Strzelewicz. The code source is hosted on GitHub and installable via npm.
Yeoman is an open source client-side scaffolding tool for web applications.Yeoman runs as a command-line interface written for Node.js and combines several functions into one place, such as generating a starter template, managing dependencies, running unit tests, providing a local development server, and optimizing production code for deployment.
V8 from Google is the most used JavaScript engine. Google Chrome and the many other Chromium-based browsers use it, as do applications built with CEF, Electron, or any other framework that embeds Chromium. Other uses include the Node.js and Deno runtime systems. SpiderMonkey is developed by Mozilla for use in Firefox and its forks.