When I was trying to learn Express it didn't make any sense to me, batteries were not included at the time and I'm sure they are now or you can just ask Yeoman

When I was trying to learn Express it didn't make any sense to me, batteries were not included at the time and I'm sure they are now or you can just ask Yeoman and it shall be granted. Since then I've watched Rich Hickey talks and started to dig into Clojure and started to grok the whole computing stack. The Clojure way is to compose your own web services rather than configure them. I think express works the same way. Build what you need. Frameworks are always more productive for a hackathon or a pointy haired boss's deadline. For building a system that will be robust, maintainable, and scale to n, pure logic plus minimal libraries are superior in the long run. And far more secure, both through purity and obscurity.