--- title: "Why you should drop ExpressJS in 2021" url: https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-drop-expressjs-in-2021-gyufv5phm source_url: https://dev.to/romainlanz/why-you-should-drop-expressjs-in-2021-711 type: article source: "DEV" published: 2021-02-14T15:10:09.625Z updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z tags: ["nodejs"] reading_time: 6 upvotes: 61 comments: 3 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Why you should drop ExpressJS in 2021 **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 6 min read · 61 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Express was one of the first frameworks in the Node.js ecosystem, and it was great for many years! But now, it is time to let it go. Express is a routing library that supports middleware, but it is still called "a framework" It is unmaintained and has not been updated for years. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@idoshamun** · 4 upvotes > TLDR use AdonisJS or fastify **@juanjosej** · 1 upvotes > Express will go brrrr **@berkmann18** · 1 upvotes > It still has it's use (as a minimal framework) but there's indeed better alternative like Fastify, Koa (made by the creators of ExpressJS) and more (that I haven't tried _yet_). ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/why-you-should-drop-expressjs-in-2021-gyufv5phm)