Express
How vibe coders and indie builders use Express: 168 projects built with it and 5 built for it since May 2026.
Projects built with it
168
Share of stated stacks, 4 wks
0.8%
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
▼ -30%
Add-ons built for it
5
Share of stated stacks, per week
Share rather than counts, so changes in how many posts a subreddit lets through don't show up as trends.
Often used with
- Node.js 107
- React 84
- PostgreSQL 55
- Vite 49
- TypeScript 42
- Tailwind CSS 31
- Vercel 30
- JavaScript 28
What's built with it
Latest projects built with Express
- StudiaStoria — Offers a browser quiz game where players guess whether the next historical event happened before or after the one shown, plus history summaries and study tools.“My historical timeline game became unexpectedly popular in Italy, so I just translated it into English, German, and French.”
- dbm — Manages database backups for PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB, storing them locally or in S3 and restoring them into another database of the same type.“Built an open source backup manager after one too many "did I just drop prod?" moments”
- Tile House — Runs an online storefront for tiles and marble with a product catalogue, cart, pricing with labour and transport charges, checkout, and an admin dashboard for products, stock, offers, and orders.“Built a full-stack tiles & marble e-commerce website — looking for feedback, discussions, and interesting projects.”
- binance-pay-saas-starter — Provides a Next.js and Express starter kit that accepts Binance Pay crypto payments and issues license keys after payment.“I got tired of Stripe's 3.5% fees and 7-day payout holds, so I built an open-source Next.js 14 boilerplate with Binance Pay (0% fees, instant USDT)”
- MMT HQ — Generates weekly humorous power rankings with a roast for each team in a fantasy football league, using imported ESPN or Sleeper league data.“I built a site that roasts every team in your fantasy football league every Tuesday. Launched today”
- Curio — Generates trivia quiz questions from French Wikipedia articles filtered by pageview count and serves them as a quiz with leaderboards.“Built a trivia quiz that generates its questions from Wikipedia instead of a hand-written question bank”
- Corvale — Tracks personal finances offline with transactions, accounts, budgets, savings goals and reports, importing bank statements from CSV, OFX, QFX or QIF files.“I've been building an offline-first personal finance app solo for 17 months (Rust/Tauri desktop + React web). Public release soon, feedback welcome”
- LabelLens — Scans photos of food labels to list ingredients, give a 1-10 health score, and flag additives and allergens.“I fell into the classic developer trap: spent months perfecting an AI SaaS and ranked #10 on Product Hunt... with 0 marketing plan. Looking to pass it on.”
- ProFolio — Provides a React portfolio template with a local admin dashboard for editing content without touching component code, deployable to Vercel.“I got tired of editing React components to update my portfolio, so I built a template with a local backend dashboard & 1-click Vercel deployment.”
- Domain Intel API — Returns branding, social links, DNS records, SSL status and headers for a domain in one API call.“I built a fast domain enrichment API to get logos, metadata, DNS & social links in one call (Node.js + Cheerio + SQLite)”
- JobPrime — Scans live job listings across many countries and surfaces roles where the user's background scores as a top match.“I am tired of applying to jobs (2026 job market!!!), I don't know where my application goes to. Took me 2 months (I am dumb) to built an engine that only surfaces jobs where I am actually a top match.”
- Curate — Saves docs, repos, tools and articles from a browser popup into private collections so they can be found later.“Curate – a private bookmark library for developers (Chrome/Edge extension) – now open source under MIT”
- Bloom — Tracks periods, symptoms and mood, predicts cycles and ovulation, and shares cycle context with a partner.“[Bloom] — Period Companion: full-stack period tracker app I'm handing off”
- SSSDocs — Shares sensitive documents through encrypted, expiring links protected by access codes.“I built SSSDocs — a secure document-sharing SaaS”
- FocusCourse Studio — Turns YouTube videos and playlists into structured courses with a distraction-free viewer, focus timer, AI-generated assignments, and progress tracking.“I created a free version of Courses check it out..”
Latest add-ons built for Express
- codeTAC — Traces a UI action back to the components, server functions, database calls and external services behind it.“I built codeTAC to help me understand AI-generated code instead of treating it like a black box”
- vscode-ts-backend-snippets — Provides VS Code snippets that generate routes, controllers, middleware, error handlers and tests for Express 5 TypeScript backends.“VS Code Extension for Express 5 + TypeScript”
- Wotchi — Groups repeated Node.js errors, applies thresholds and cooldowns, and sends alerts to console, Telegram, or a webhook.“I built a small Node.js alerting package after seeing logs ignored”
- EnvTunnel — Monitors common local dev ports, detects running dev servers, and shows a QR code to open them on a phone.“I built EnvTunnel: A lightweight desktop app that auto-detects running local dev servers and generates QR codes for mobile testing”
- DocuPoints — Generates API documentation by scanning project source code for endpoints, request and response shapes, and middleware, without annotations.“I built a tool that scans your codebase and generates API docs automatically – no annotations needed”
Pitched as alternatives to Express
- PlusWeb — Provides an Express-style HTTP framework in C++17 with routing, middleware, and routers.“I couldn't understand how Express works, so I rebuilt it in C++”