[roblh]

It seems like it. There are alternatives like Koa and Fastify, but none of seem to strike quite the balance that express does. I pray that one day express 5 will get released and they’ll finally fix the whole async middleware not handling errors properly thing though. That’s gotta be one of the most annoying quirks that has just been quietly sitting there untouched for years at this point. Maybe one day.

I guess there’s Bun and Elysia now too, but that’s pretty bleeding edge by comparison.

[contextnavidad]

> async middleware not handling errors properly thing though

Can you expand on this? Error handling in middleware is pretty well documented.

[roblh]

Anytime an error happens inside an async middleware in express, you have to explicitly catch it and pass it directly to the `next` function, otherwise it'll just disappear and any kind of error logging middleware you have later on will never see it. In synchronous functions any error is passed automatically. You can write more middleware to address this, or just manually catch everything, but it just means more boilerplate. There's no reason to expect different types of middleware to have different behaviour unless you already know. It's not catastrophic, but I expect more consistent design from such an established library, especially considering how long this has been an issue.