Rather than changing express's syntax, I would much rather have a better express boilerplate generator with an opinionated stack with good documentation/justification.
I recently started learning express/node and wasted weeks googling for blog posts for each dependency to figure out how to configure them. I guess this is somewhat valuable for end-to-end understanding but not for productivity.
There are a bunch dependencies I am now kind of decided on (not for technical reasons, but because they are clear popularity contest winners) and figured out how use:
body-parser
compression
serve-favicon
express-session
csurf
helmet
cors
dotenv
moment
selfsigned
chalk
debug
But still a bunch that I haven't gotten to googling and still need to decide on what to choose:
logging (morgan vs winston)
validation (express-validator, joi)
auth (passport jwt, local, social)
session storage (redis vs keeping it in database?)
database (mongo/mongoose vs pg/knex/bookshelf/sequelize, graphql)
storage (s3 vs gcs)
ajax requests (request vs axios)
mail (mailgun, sendgrid, mailchimp)
error handlers
rate limiting
geo ip
I would be so happy if someone took away my power to choose and just forced me to use something that will "just work".
I recently started learning express/node and wasted weeks googling for blog posts for each dependency to figure out how to configure them. I guess this is somewhat valuable for end-to-end understanding but not for productivity.
There are a bunch dependencies I am now kind of decided on (not for technical reasons, but because they are clear popularity contest winners) and figured out how use:
But still a bunch that I haven't gotten to googling and still need to decide on what to choose: I would be so happy if someone took away my power to choose and just forced me to use something that will "just work".