It looks like some important express-like things are missing though. For instance, there is no routing abstraction or rendering. I think you're right that Expre

It looks like some important express-like things are missing though. For instance, there is no routing abstraction or rendering. I think you're right that Express is connect with extra goodies, but the most important of those are missing from koa. Although branding it as a 'next-generation web framework' definitely seems like they want to replace express.