Express Routes Are Too Fat: A 2026 Cleanup Guide
I spent last Tuesday staring at a single file named routes.js that was three thousand lines long. It had database queries mixed with validation logic.
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I spent last Tuesday staring at a single file named routes.js that was three thousand lines long. It had database queries mixed with validation logic.
I saw another one of those "framework showdown" charts floating around social media this morning. You know the type.
Look, I know what you're thinking. "Another markdown editor? Really?" Yes. Really. Because the one I was using crashed twice yesterday while I was trying.
I remember the bad old days of client-side waterfalls. You know the drill: load the HTML, wait for the JS bundle, parse it, fire a fetch request, wait for.
I was looking at my database logs the other day—mostly because the dev server was choking on a simple query—and I saw it. The classic wall of text.