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‫So, from now on

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‫we are gonna use Express in our application.

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‫So the logical question is now

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‫what is Express and why should we use it?

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‫So, Express is a minimal node.js framework,

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‫which means it is actually built on top of node.js.

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‫Basically it's a higher level of abstraction,

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‫but, behind the scenes,

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‫Express is written 100% using node.js code, okay?

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‫It's also the most popular node.js framework, by the way.

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‫There are a couple of others,

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‫but Express has kind of become the standard here.

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‫So, Express contains a very robust

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‫and very useful set of features.

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‫Things like complex routing,

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‫easier handling of requests and responses,

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‫adding middleware, server-side rendering,

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‫and much, much more are all included out of the box.

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‫And this of course allows us to write node.js applications

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‫so much faster than before

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‫because we don't have to reinvent the wheel, basically.

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‫We don't have to repeat the same code over and over again

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‫each time that we need to implement

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‫some really complex routing, for example,

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‫or some templating system or something like that.

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‫So all of that is already included in Express,

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‫ready for us to use.

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‫For example, remember how we did

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‫some extremely simple routing

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‫right in the intersection of this course,

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‫but it was still not really straightforward to implement it.

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‫But, with Express, it's gonna

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‫be like ten times more simple you will see.

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‫Also, Express makes it easier

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‫to organize our application into the MVC architecture,

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‫which is a very popular software architecture pattern

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‫that we're gonna explore during this course.

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‫So, in conclusion, Express will make

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‫our lives with node.js so much easier

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‫and experience really is so much more pleasant.

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‫So I can't wait to show it to you throughout this section.