⚠ The project is in development. Please don't use in production.

tinyhttp is a modern Express-like web framework written in TypeScript and compiled to native ESM, that uses a bare minimum amount of dependencies trying to avoid legacy hell.

Here is a short list of most important features that tinyhttp has:

• ⚡ 2.5x faster than Express
• ⚙ Full Express middleware support
• ↪ Async middleware support
• ☑ Native ESM and CommonJS support
• 🚀 No legacy dependencies, just the JavaScript itself
• 🔨 Types out of the box
• 🗜 4x smaller than Express

To get started, visit tinyhttp website.

tinyhttp requires Node.js 12.4.0 or newer. It is recommended to use pnpm, although it isn't required.

# npm
npm i @tinyhttp/app
# pnpm
pnpm i @tinyhttp/app
# yarn
yarn add @tinyhttp/app

You can see the documentation here.

The app structure is quite similar to Express, except that you need to import App from @tinyhttp/app instead of default import from express.

import { App } from '@tinyhttp/app'
import { logger } from '@tinyhttp/logger'

const app = new App()

app
  .use(logger())
  .use(function someMiddleware(req, res, next) {
    console.log('Did a request')
    next()
  })
  .get('/', (_, res) => {
    res.send('<h1>Hello World</h1>')
  })
  .get('/page/:page/', (req, res) => {
    res.status(200).send(`You just opened ${req.params.page}`)
  })
  .listen(3000)

For more examples, check examples folder.

tinyhttp offers a list of premade middleware for common tasks.

Search and explore the full list at middleware search page.

To compare tinyhttp with Express and Polka (another Express-like framework), see COMPARISON.md

To see benchmark comparison between tinyhttp, polka and express, check benchmark folder.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

MIT © v1rtl

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

v 1 r t l 💡 🔌 📆 🚧 💻

Matt 🔌

Nasmevka 📖

elianiva 💡 🚧 💻 ⚠️

Katja Lutz 💡

Arnovsky 🔌 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

These amazing people supported tinyhttp financially:

molefrog