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Express Gateway
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Express Gateway

#97in API Tools
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What is Express Gateway?

A cloud-native microservices gateway completely configurable and extensible through JavaScript/Node.js built for ALL platforms and languages. Enterprise features are FREE thanks to the power of 3K+ ExpressJS battle hardened modules.

Express Gateway is a tool in the API Tools category of a tech stack.

Key Features

AuthenticationAuthorizationAPI ManagementMicroservicesJSON Web Token (JWT)OAuth2Custom PluginsConsumer MgmtYAML DrivenREST APIPipelinesBuilt-in PoliciesHot Reload and RestartActions & Conditions

Express Gateway Pros & Cons

Pros of Express Gateway

  • ✓Microservices, Body manipulation
  • ✓Amazing api gwy. Easy and powerful configuration
  • ✓Custom Plugins

Cons of Express Gateway

  • ✗Deprecated

Express Gateway Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Express Gateway?

Istio

Istio

Istio is an open platform for providing a uniform way to integrate microservices, manage traffic flow across microservices, enforce policies and aggregate telemetry data. Istio's control plane provides an abstraction layer over the underlying cluster management platform, such as Kubernetes, Mesos, etc.

Zuul

Zuul

It is the front door for all requests from devices and websites to the backend of the Netflix streaming application. As an edge service application, It is built to enable dynamic routing, monitoring, resiliency, and security. Routing is an integral part of a microservice architecture.

Jersey

Jersey

It is open source, production quality, framework for developing RESTful Web Services in Java that provides support for JAX-RS APIs and serves as a JAX-RS (JSR 311 & JSR 339) Reference Implementation. It provides it’s own API that extend the JAX-RS toolkit with additional features and utilities to further simplify RESTful service and client development.

linkerd

linkerd

linkerd is an out-of-process network stack for microservices. It functions as a transparent RPC proxy, handling everything needed to make inter-service RPC safe and sane--including load-balancing, service discovery, instrumentation, and routing.

Azure Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric

Azure Service Fabric is a distributed systems platform that makes it easy to package, deploy, and manage scalable and reliable microservices. Service Fabric addresses the significant challenges in developing and managing cloud apps.

Dapr

Dapr

It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.

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Express Gateway Integrations

Prometheus, Google Kubernetes Engine, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Docker and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with Express Gateway. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with Express Gateway.

Prometheus
Prometheus
Google Kubernetes Engine
Google Kubernetes Engine
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Docker
Docker
Auth0
Auth0
StatsD
StatsD
Node.js
Node.js
Azure Kubernetes Service
Azure Kubernetes Service
ExpressJS
ExpressJS
Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS
OpenTracing
OpenTracing

Express Gateway Discussions

Discover why developers choose Express Gateway. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.

maha saad
maha saad

Apr 30, 2020

Needs adviceonNode.jsNode.jsExpress GatewayExpress Gateway

I'm Node.js developer, I want to ask if Express Gateway is the best choice for building API gateway, and what is the other good alternatives and why?

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Clyde Hinshelwood
Clyde Hinshelwood

Director of Sales

Apr 25, 2019

Needs adviceonExpress GatewayExpress Gateway

Lightweight easy to use Express Gateway. Based on Express and thousands of plug ins gives it great flexibility to provide API gateway functionality both on premise and public cloud providers.

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Al Tsang
Al Tsang

CEO at LunchBadger

Mar 11, 2019

Needs adviceonTyk CloudTyk CloudKongKongExpressJSExpressJS

Problem/Challenge

We needed a lightweight and completely customizable #microservices #gateway to be able to generate #JWT and introspect #OAuth2 tokens as well. The #gateway was going to front all #APIs for our single page web app as well as externalized #APIs for our partners.

Contenders

We looked at Tyk Cloud and Kong. Kong's plugins are all Lua based and its core is NGINX and OpenResty. Although it's open source, it's not the greatest platform to be able to customize. On top of that enterprise features are paid and expensive. Tyk is Go and the nomenclature used within Tyk like "sessions" was bizarre, and again enterprise features were paid.

Decision

We ultimately decided to roll our own using ExpressJS into Express Gateway because the use case for using ExpressJS as an #API #gateway was tried and true, in fact - all the enterprise features that the other two charge for #OAuth2 introspection etc were freely available within ExpressJS middleware.

Outcome

We opened source Express Gateway with a core set of plugins and the community started writing their own and could quickly do so by rolling lots of ExpressJS middleware into Express Gateway

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