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Package Health Score

95 / 100

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No known security issues
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Healthy
community
Active

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Security

No known security issues

All security vulnerabilities belong to production dependencies of direct and indirect packages.

Security and license risk for significant versions

All Versions

Version				Vulnerabilities	License Risk
4.21.1	\|	10/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.20.0	\|	09/2024		0 C 0 H 0 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
4.18.2	\|	10/2022	Popular	0 C 0 H 2 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
3.21.2	\|	07/2015		0 C 0 H 4 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L
2.5.11	\|	07/2012		0 C 0 H 4 M 0 L	0 H 0 M 0 L

License

MIT

Security Policy

Yes

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

Weekly Downloads (19,727,338)

GitHub Stars: 65.61K
Forks: 16.21K
Contributors: 290

Direct Usage Popularity

The npm package express receives a total of 19,727,338 downloads a week. As such, we scored express popularity level to be Key ecosystem project.

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the npm package express, we found that it has been starred 65,615 times.

Downloads are calculated as moving averages for a period of the last 12 months, excluding weekends and known missing data points.

Community

Active

Readme.md: No
Contributing.md: Yes
Code of Conduct: Yes
Contributors: 290
Funding: Yes

A good and healthy external contribution signal for express project, which invites more than one hundred open source maintainers to collaborate on the repository.

How about a good first contribution to this project? It seems that express is missing a README file.

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 111
Open PR: 112
Last Release: 1 month ago
Last Commit: 10 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of express based on released npm versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that express demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

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Package

Node.js Compatibility: >= 0.10.0

Age: 14 years
Dependencies: 31 Direct
Versions: 312
Install Size: 221 kB
Dist-tags: 2
# of Files: 16
Maintainers: 7
TS Typings: Yes

express has more than a single and default latest tag published for the npm package. This means, there may be other tags available for this package, such as next to indicate future releases, or stable to indicate stable releases.

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var MemoryBackend = require('../backend/memory'),
    RestBackend = require('../backend/rest'),
    warehouse = require('..'),
    express = require('express'),
    _ = require('underscore'),
    app = express(),
    server = new MemoryBackend().objectStore('test', {keyPath: '_id'});

var port = 12345;


app.use(express.bodyParser());
app.use(express.methodOverride());

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    if (req.url === '/' || req.url === '/index.html') {
        res.redirect('/tests/index.html');
        return;
    }

    // allow cross origin for testing
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
    res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'PUT, GET, POST, DELETE, OPTIONS');
      res.header('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Content-Type, X-HTTP-Method-Override');

      // backbone emulateJSON support
      if (req.headers['content-type'] === 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded') {
          if (req.body.model) {
              req.body = JSON.parse(req.body.model);

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FAQs

What is express?

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for express, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is express popular?

The npm package express receives a total of 19,727,338 weekly downloads. As such, express popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is express well maintained?

We found that express demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity. It has a community of 290 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is express safe to use?

The npm package express was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 8 November-2024, at 06:38 (UTC).

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