SeeRepo with Express

SeeRepo recognizes an Express app from the express package in its package.json.

What SeeRepo reads

• Every route is an action: app.get('/…'), router.post('/…'), .put, .patch, .delete and .all, and chained routes like .route('/x').get().
• The file that creates the server (express()) or starts it (.listen(port)) is a door.
• Routes that receive webhooks are API doors, for Machines.
• Mongoose models in the same repo are data: see Mongoose.

An example from our test bank

hagopj13/node-express-boilerplate, read at a fixed commit:

• 3 actions and 34 inner pieces, in 39 product files
• 2 data models with Mongoose: Token and User
• MongoDB, found as a service with its proof

Good to know

• Express often lives next to a frontend in the same repo. In a monorepo, each package is read with its own framework: in our bank, async-labs/saas has Next.js apps and Express APIs side by side, and SeeRepo reads 7 Mongoose models from it (Discussion, EmailTemplate, Invitation, PasswordlessToken, Post, Team, User).
• Other JavaScript server frameworks (Nest, Hono, Fastify) aren't recognized yet: their files still appear on the map.