Node.js Foundation to Add Express to its Incubator Program

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 10, 2016 — The Node.js Foundation, a community-led and industry-backed consortium to advance the development of the Node.js platform, today announced Express, the most popular Node.js web server framework, and some of its constituent modules are on track to become a new incubation project of the Foundation.

With 53+ million downloads in the last two years, Express has become one of the key toolkits for building web applications and its stability is essential for many Node.js users, especially those that are just getting started with the platform. Express also underpins some of the most significant projects that support Node.js, including kraken.js, a secure and scalable layer that extends Express and is heavily used by enterprises. Kraken.js was open sourced by PayPal in 2014. It also underpins Sails.js, a web framework that makes it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade Node.js apps, and Loopback, a Node.js API framework.

“This framework is critical to a significant portion of many Node.js users,” said Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager of the Node.js Foundation. “Bringing this project into the Node.js Foundation, under open governance, will allow it to continue to be a dependable choice for many enterprises and users, while ensuring that we retain a healthy ecosystem of competing approaches to solving problems that Express addresses.”

"The work around developing and maintaining Express has been a tremendous asset to the community," said Rod Vagg, Chief Node Officer at NodeSource and Technical Steering Committee Director of the Node.js Foundation. "With 5 million package downloads in the last month, the stability of this project, that will get a huge boost through open governance, is very important to the efforts of the Node.js Foundation in supporting Node.js as a technology and developer ecosystem."

“IBM is committed not only to growing and supporting the Node.js ecosystem, but to promoting open governance for the frameworks that enable Node.js developers to work smarter, faster and with more agility,” said Todd Moore, IBM, VP Open Technology. “We are thrilled that Express is being introduced as an incubated top level project of the Foundation. Express has a bright future and a new long term home that will ensure resources, reliability and relevancy of Express to the global Node.js developer community.”

Assets related to Express are being contributed to the Node.js Foundation by IBM.

The Node.js Foundation Incubator Program was launched last year. Projects under the Node.js Foundation Incubator Program receive assistance and governance mentorship from the Foundation's Technical Steering Committee and related working groups. The Incubator Program is intended to support the many needs of Node.js users to maintain a competitive and robust ecosystem.

About Node.js Foundation

Node.js is used by tens of thousands of organizations in more than 200 countries and amasses more than 3 million active users per month. It is the runtime of choice for high-performance, low latency applications, powering everything from enterprise applications, robots, API engines, cloud stacks and mobile websites.

The Foundation is made up of a diverse group of companies including Platinum members Famous, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Microsoft, PayPal and Red Hat. Gold members include GoDaddy, NodeSource and Modulus/Progress Software, and Silver members include Apigee, Codefresh, DigitalOcean, Fidelity, Groupon, nearForm, npm, RisingStack, Sauce Labs, SAP, StrongLoop (an IBM company), YLD!, and Yahoo!. Get involved here: https://nodejs.org.

The Node.js Foundation is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org