[mikermcneil]

Perhaps, but I can assure you that Express 3 and Express 4 are completely safe. The interface set up by Express is depended on by far too many companies and other frameworks for that to not be the case -- for instance, even though Express 3 is officially unmaintained by Strongloop, the Sails core team has committed to taking over critical patches.

As for the future of Express: I've only had the opportunity to get together with Doug in person once, but we've talked about this a few times in the past. I can guarantee you the last thing he wants is drama, so I'll leave the ball completely in his court there.

I will say this though: keep an eye on Doug's federated projects (jshttp and Pillar). Whether or not the various pieces are released as Express 5 or not, the _code base_ is still improving and becoming increasingly standardized, regardless of the monicker. More on that: https://github.com/balderdashy/sails/pull/3235#issuecomment-...