🆚 Express vs. Koa

Type

Backend framework
Backend framework

About

Express is a minimal and flexible Node.js web framework that lets developers build web apps and APIs using routing, middleware, template engines, and support for serving static assets.

It provides a robust routing system with support for HTTP verbs, built-in middleware for JSON and URL-encoded parsing, error handlers, and a large ecosystem of third-party plugins available through npm.

Koa is an expressive HTTP middleware framework for Node.js using ES2017 async functions.

Designed by the team behind Express, it offers a modular architecture, allowing developers to compose middleware functions for routing, error handling, and context management, providing fine-grained control over the request-response cycle.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Backend Frameworks › Rank #6
Backend Frameworks › Rank #47

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Express backend framework is 358 times more popular than Koa.
Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Express is more popular than Koa in all countries.
United States
Germany
Russia
Brazil
India
France
United Kingdom
China
Netherlands
Taiwan

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Express is more popular than Koa in all market segments.
Business
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Internet Services
Entertainment
Blogs/Wiki
General News
Education/Reference
Travel
Fashion/Beauty

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#12
dmm.co.jp
#149
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Name
Rank
#20,593
#26,400
#31,978
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See also

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