express
Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework
npm says
195,540,661 / week
Every tarball fetch: mirrors, scanners, CI and people.
probably humans
≈ 195,505,058–195,540,661 / week
best guess 195,533,025 high confidence
Snapshot from the daily build of Nov 4, 2026, last 7 days of npm data. With JavaScript on, this page recomputes it live from the npm API.
How many people actually use express?
npm counted 195,540,661 downloads of express in the last 7 days. That count includes every tarball fetch: registry mirrors, security scanners, CI pipelines and crawlers as well as people. humanloads estimates that about 195,533,025 of them (likely range 195,505,058–195,540,661) were real human installs, with high confidence. That puts less than 1% of npm's weekly count down to robots.
Is express still maintained?
Most likely yes, going by its releases. The latest version, 5.3.0, came out on Oct 9, 2026. The last 12 months saw 7 stable releases, typically 126 days apart. It was first published on Dec 29, 2010. npm lists 5 maintainers.
Is express still used?
Downloads with publish spikes removed are up 46% over 3 months and up 240% over 11 months. Last week, 60% of downloads above the crawler floor were on major version 5, the latest one; the most used single version was 5.2.1, with 37%. Weekdays get 1.5× the downloads of weekends, which fits people at work, though CI follows the same rhythm. Crawlers account for about 7,830 downloads a week, roughly 27 per version.
How the estimate works
- Cut the spike every new version gets from mirrors in its first days.
- Subtract the flat floor robots download from every version each week.
- Show what is left as a range, with an honest confidence level.