I am a newcomer to node.js techique stack. I found some many articles are introducing node.js and Express. I know Express is a good web framework including template engine, routing, etc. It is popular and active framework. There are some point I am confused:
- Why there are still so many web frameworks are built on Express? Is it lack of much features?
- Why does Express do not evolve to add more features? Is it a lower-level web framework？
- What are the product orientation for Express and others (which is built based on Express)?
Express is designed to only do a few things well. It will take care of routing and some templating for you, but it isn't a complete MVC solution. Since express takes care of a lot of basic middleware required for MVC frameworks, these frameworks are built on express.