tinyhttp - a tiny Express-like web framework that uses a bare minimum amount of dependencie...

⚠ The project is in development. Please don't use in production.

tinyhttp is a modern Express -like web framework written in TypeScript and compiled to native ESM, that uses a bare minimum amount of dependencies trying to avoid legacy hell.

Here is a short list of most important features that tinyhttp has:

• :zap: 2.5x faster than Express
• ⚙ Full Express middleware support
• ↪ Async middleware support
• ☑ Native ESM and CommonJS support
• :rocket: No legacy dependencies, just the JavaScript itself
• :hammer: Types out of the box
• 4x smaller than Express

To get started, visit tinyhttp website .

Install

tinyhttp requires Node.js 12.4.0 or newer . It is recommended to use pnpm , although it isn't required.

# npm
npm i @tinyhttp/app
# pnpm
pnpm i @tinyhttp/app
# yarn
yarn add @tinyhttp/app

Docs

You can see the documentation here .

Get Started

The app structure is quite similar to Express, except that you need to import App from @tinyhttp/app instead of default import from express .

import { App } from '@tinyhttp/app'
import { logger } from '@tinyhttp/logger'

const app = new App()

app
  .use(logger())
  .use(function someMiddleware(req, res, next) {
    console.log('Did a request')
    next()
  })
  .get('/', (_, res) => {
    res.send('<h1>Hello World</h1>')
  })
  .get('/page/:page/', (req, res) => {
    res.status(200).send(`You just opened ${req.params.page}`)
  })
  .listen(3000)

For more examples, check examples folder.

Middlewares

tinyhttp offers a list of premade middleware for common tasks.

Search and explore the full list at middleware search page .

Comparison

To compare tinyhttp with Express and Polka (another Express-like framework), see COMPARISON.md

Benchmarks

To see benchmark comparison between tinyhttp, polka and express, check benchmark folder.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md .

License

MIT © v1rtl

Contributors :sparkles:

Thanks goes to these wonderful people ( emoji key ):

v 1 r t l :computer:

Matt

Nasmevka :book:

elianiva :computer: :warning:

Katja Lutz

Arnovsky :computer:

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

Supporters :moneybag:

These amazing people supported tinyhttp financially:

_molefrog