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restify vs express: What are the differences?

Developers describe restify as "REST framework". REST framework. On the other hand, express is detailed as "Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework". Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework.

restify and express can be primarily classified as "npm Packages" tools.

restify and express are both open source tools. It seems that express with 54.6K GitHub stars and 9.23K forks on GitHub has more adoption than restify with 10.3K GitHub stars and 997 GitHub forks.

Omnipresent, FindHotel, and 2LStudios are some of the popular companies that use express, whereas restify is used by *, *, and *. express has a broader approval, being mentioned in *1210 company stacks & 715 developers stacks; compared to restify, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

express Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 57.4K
restify Stats
  • Dependent Packages Counts - 1.5K
express Vulnerabilities
  • qs vulnerable to Prototype Pollution
    High
  • Express.js Open Redirect in malformed URLs
    Moderate
  • No Charset in Content-Type Header in express
    Moderate
restify Vulnerabilities
  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in restify
    Moderate
express Release info
Latest version
4.19.2
MIT
restify Release info
Latest version
11.2.0
MIT

What is express?

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework.

What is restify?

REST framework.

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