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Life & fun · January 23, 2020

Bareserver – Express.js Alternative for Minimalists

Bareserver is an extremely simple and fast web server for Node. It's a new way to build RESTful services. It's a minimal alternative to Express, Fastify, and

Bareserver – Express.js Alternative for Minimalists launched on January 23, 2020 with 9 votes, #922 of 3,486 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

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Bareserver is an extremely simple and fast web server for Node. It’s a new way to build RESTful services. It’s a minimal alternative to Express, Fastify, and the like. Bareserver offers a simple, domain-specific syntax for creating RESTful web services. The primary reason for building Bareserver was to get an API that makes web services feel like local development: you take in arguments and send back return values. There are no request and response objects so you never need to worry about request bodies, argument parsing or return value serialization. You don’t need a middleware to get the async calls working. The small API documentation fits into two pages. You learn to…from volument.com

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