Speed Up Your Express App With One Line

If you’ve worked a bit with NodeJS, you’ve probably heard of Express. The web framework that is slow but has good syntax (a matter of personal preference). In this tutorial I will show you how to make your Express application at least 3 times faster

Requirements:

1. An application written with Express.js (OBV)

Let’s say your express application is this

const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello World!')
})

app.listen(port, () => {
 console.log(`Example app listening on port ${port}`)
})

First install a package called ultimate-express which is a faster implementation of Express and they claim to be at least 3 times more faster than Express.

npm install ultimate-express

Oh by the way, ultimate-express may not work with every single express app. Also it doesn’t work with Vercel serverless functions thingy, I tried it myself.

Anyways, after installing the ultimate-express package replace this link

const express = require('express')

With this:

const express = require('ultimate-express')

And then uninstall express to make node_modules less bloated:

npm uninstall express

Now your Express app is now super duper fast and can even beat the shit out of Elysia, have a good day and see you in my next blog post