--- title: "Modern alternatives to Express.js" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 367 published_at: "2020-12-03" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/367" --- Plus why npm 7 is so good, mining your CLI history, and deploying Node to Fargate | #367 — December 3, 2020 [Read on the Web](https://nodeweekly.com/issues/367) Node Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/xqbmcmcbltvrbbu7fzfq.jpg)](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/) [AWS Lambda Adds Container Image Support](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/) — And AWS uses Node in this post to show off the new feature. AWS Lambda is a serverless platform where you upload code and then it can be executed on a ‘pay as you go’ basis. Supporting containers might feel better to many developers wary of Lambda’s usual ‘upload a ZIP file’ approach. Lambda also now bills in 1 millisecond increments [with a 1 millisecond minimum](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-1ms-billing-granularity-adds-cost-savings/), so it may be worth another look. Danilo Poccia (AWS) [csv-parser 3.0: A Streaming CSV Parser Aimed at Maximum Speed](https://github.com/mafintosh/csv-parser) — Aiming to “be faster than everyone else”, use this to ingest CSV and get JSON in return. [neat-csv](https://github.com/sindresorhus/neat-csv) provides a Promise-based wrapper if you need it. Mathias Buus [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/3bb03502.png)](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) [Redis 6.0 on RedisGreen](https://dashboard.redisgreen.net/nodeweekly) — SSL encryption, key size tracking, memory mapping, online upgrades, and more. RedisGreen sponsor [npm 7: This Is What I Call An Update!](https://blog.bitsrc.io/npm-7-this-is-what-i-call-an-update-de17a34ab787) — [npm 7](https://blog.npmjs.org/post/631877012766785536/release-v700) came out in October, but here the author sings its praises and why workspaces and peer dependency management have meant to a lot to him. Fernando Doglio ✨ Rising alternatives to Express A few alternative webapp libraries and frameworks have come up on our radar lately, if you're looking for a change from Express, Fastify, Koa, and more established options: - [Tinyhttp 1.0](https://thecarrots.io/blog/tinyhttp-1.0-replacement-of-express) is a modern 'Express replacement' that also goes the TypeScript route. Being _as minimal as possible_ while leaning on modern language features is its goal. - [Foal TS](https://foalts.org/) is a TypeScript-oriented webapp framework that's just passed 1000 stars on GitHub. While simplicity is one of its goals, it comes with a lot built-in like auth, a CLI, job scheduling, etc. - [pure-http](https://github.com/htdangkhoa/pure-http) has no dependencies, is lightweight, and has a very Express-like feel, while being faster. Of course, [Express.js](https://expressjs.com/) itself remains a fine choice! 📗 **Tutorials and Stories** [Measuring Web Page Performance with Puppeteer or Playwright](https://theheadless.dev/posts/basics-performance/) — Puppeteer and Playwright are useful for remote controlling headless browsers, and you can use some new Web performance APIs with them to do remote or even automated performance measurement of Web pages. Giovanni Rago [Mining Your CLI History for Good `git` Aliases](https://httptoolkit.tech/blog/find-best-git-aliases/) — How a little shell magic can tell you a lot about your working habits and help you make things even more efficient. 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More on [why you might use DuckDB.](http://bicortex.com/duckdb-the-little-olap-database-that-could-tpc-ds-benchmark-results-and-first-impressions/) CWI Database Architectures Group [auth.js 3.0: GitHub API Authentication Library for Node and Browser](https://github.com/octokit/auth.js) — An official library, no less, and it supports four auth strategies. GitHub [pg-mem: An Experimental In-Memory Postgres Instance for Tests](https://github.com/oguimbal/pg-mem) — I’m not sure about this approach for the long term as it’s a clone with its own SQL parser and will not behave identically to Postgres, but if you’re a Node developer maybe it’ll be of interest. There’s [a playground](https://oguimbal.github.io/pg-mem-playground/) if you want to experiment with what it can handle. 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