[kaoD]

Not at all. Express is more like Rack than Rails. It provides routing and middleware setup... and that's pretty much it. It's a microframework designed to be minimal, so you are crticising its core design.

You should compare Rails/Django to full-fledged frameworks such as Geddy/Tower/Locomotive/Meteor/Compound... Many of these frameworks are built on top of Express, leveraging it just like Rails/Sinatra leverage Rack.

That's why you should never criticise what you don't know! :)

[andreypopp]

So Rack doesn't handle errors properly now?

Node.js error handling sucks, period.

[matthieupiguet]

Well, you do seem to be an expert ... Error handling works pretty well if you know how to code (we run a seever in production with 2M requests per day on node and we manage errors pretty well)

[andreypopp]

I didn't say it is impossible, it just sucks compared to other platforms/languages.