how does express get its name?

[zzz6519003]

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[bjohansebas]

what?

[mertssmnoglu]

It's a historical question. I don't have the "correct" information, but sometimes Express means fast in English. After researching the commit history, I found a sentence in the first README that says

"Insanely fast (and small) server-side JavaScript web development framework." See README in initial commit
26 June 2009

So it's possibly comes from this and means fast
Since we couldn't chat with tj - the original author of Express - if anybody knows the corrected answer please let us know.

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More 'old' links and informations that I found:

• The Old Wiki Page: https://web.archive.org/web/20100930153946/http://github.com/visionmedia/express/wiki
• The headline was "Sinatra-like JavaScript node.js web development framework -- insanely fast, insanely sexy" on Feb 2010

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