Well here is the answer from the guy who is still maintaining it: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2827 https://github.com/strongloop/express/issue

Well here is the answer from the guy who is still maintaining it: https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2827 https://github.com/strongloop/express/issues/2827 The link is from the fifth comment. When developing in node it makes a lot of sense to use lots of different modules for the one project. At work I have a good dozen or so, it really helps with iteration and testing.