express 5.2.1
Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework
express@5.2.1 was published on 2025-12-01. Its manifest declares 28 runtime dependencies and 0 peer requirements. Bundled type declarations are not declared in the inspected metadata. The declared Node.js requirement is >= 18.
All express versions · Permanent reference to 5.2.1 · Latest release
Package specifications
| Version | 5.2.1 |
|---|---|
| License declaration | MIT |
| Published | 2025-12-01T20:49:43.268Z |
| Node.js requirement | >= 18 |
| Type declarations | Not declared |
| Runtime dependency count | 28 |
| Peer requirement count | 0 |
| Optional dependency count | 0 |
| Minified size | Measurement not available yet |
| Minified + gzip | Measurement not available yet |
| Unpacked distribution size | 73.66 KiB |
| Published file count | 10 |
| Package type | Not declared |
| ES module entry | Not declared |
| Default entry | Not declared |
| Side effects declaration | Not declared |
| Direct advisories | 0 |
| Resolved graph dependencies | 70 |
| Repository stars | 69575 |
| Repository forks | 25253 |
Install express 5.2.1
npm install express@5.2.1 pnpm add express@5.2.1 yarn add express@5.2.1
Runtime dependencies
- qs ^6.14.0
- depd ^2.0.0
- etag ^1.8.1
- once ^1.4.0
- send ^1.1.0
- vary ^1.1.2
- debug ^4.4.0
- fresh ^2.0.0
- cookie ^0.7.1
- router ^2.2.0
- accepts ^2.0.0
- type-is ^2.0.1
- parseurl ^1.3.3
- statuses ^2.0.1
- encodeurl ^2.0.0
- mime-types ^3.0.0
- proxy-addr ^2.0.7
- body-parser ^2.2.1
- escape-html ^1.0.3
- http-errors ^2.0.0
- on-finished ^2.4.1
- content-type ^1.0.5
- finalhandler ^2.1.0
- range-parser ^1.2.1
- serve-static ^2.2.0
- cookie-signature ^1.2.1
- merge-descriptors ^2.0.0
- content-disposition ^1.0.0
Peer requirements
- None declared
Optional dependencies
- None declared
Resolved dependency graph
This deps.dev graph describes a generic 64-bit Linux environment, not your application lockfile.
- accepts@2.0.0 — direct
- body-parser@2.4.0 — direct
- content-disposition@1.1.0 — direct
- content-type@1.0.5 — direct
- cookie@0.7.2 — direct
- cookie-signature@1.2.2 — direct
- debug@4.4.3 — direct
- depd@2.0.0 — direct
- encodeurl@2.0.0 — direct
- escape-html@1.0.3 — direct
- etag@1.8.1 — direct
- finalhandler@2.1.1 — direct
- fresh@2.0.0 — direct
- http-errors@2.0.1 — direct
- merge-descriptors@2.0.0 — direct
- mime-types@3.0.2 — direct
- on-finished@2.4.2 — direct
- once@1.4.0 — direct
- parseurl@1.3.3 — direct
- proxy-addr@2.0.8 — direct
- qs@6.17.0 — direct
- range-parser@1.3.0 — direct
- router@2.2.0 — direct
- send@1.2.1 — direct
- serve-static@2.2.1 — direct
- statuses@2.0.2 — direct
- type-is@2.1.0 — direct
- vary@1.1.2 — direct
- negotiator@1.1.0 — indirect
- bytes@3.1.2 — indirect
- content-type@2.1.0 — indirect
- iconv-lite@0.7.3 — indirect
- raw-body@3.0.2 — indirect
- ms@2.1.3 — indirect
- inherits@2.0.4 — indirect
- setprototypeof@1.2.0 — indirect
- toidentifier@1.0.1 — indirect
- mime-db@1.54.0 — indirect
- ee-first@1.1.1 — indirect
- wrappy@1.0.2 — indirect
- forwarded@0.2.0 — indirect
- ipaddr.js@1.9.1 — indirect
- es-define-property@1.0.1 — indirect
- side-channel@1.1.1 — indirect
- is-promise@4.0.0 — indirect
- path-to-regexp@8.4.2 — indirect
- content-type@2.1.0 — indirect
- media-typer@1.1.1 — indirect
- content-type@2.1.0 — indirect
- safer-buffer@2.1.2 — indirect
- unpipe@1.0.0 — indirect
- es-errors@1.3.0 — indirect
- object-inspect@1.13.4 — indirect
- side-channel-list@1.0.1 — indirect
- side-channel-map@1.0.1 — indirect
- side-channel-weakmap@1.0.2 — indirect
- call-bound@1.0.4 — indirect
- get-intrinsic@1.3.1 — indirect
- call-bind-apply-helpers@1.0.2 — indirect
- async-function@1.0.0 — indirect
- async-generator-function@1.0.0 — indirect
- es-object-atoms@1.1.2 — indirect
- function-bind@1.1.2 — indirect
- generator-function@2.0.1 — indirect
- get-proto@1.0.1 — indirect
- gopd@1.2.0 — indirect
- has-symbols@1.1.0 — indirect
- hasown@2.0.4 — indirect
- math-intrinsics@1.1.0 — indirect
- dunder-proto@1.0.1 — indirect
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OpenSSF repository checks
Provider assessment: 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. These are repository checks, not a jsL maintenance score.
| Maintained | 10/10 — 17 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
|---|---|
| Code-Review | 10/10 — all changesets reviewed |
| Dangerous-Workflow | 10/10 — no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Binary-Artifacts | 10/10 — no binaries found in the repo |
| Pinned-Dependencies | 6/10 — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 6 |
| CII-Best-Practices | 0/10 — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Token-Permissions | 10/10 — GitHub workflow tokens follow principle of least privilege |
| License | 10/10 — license file detected |
| Fuzzing | 0/10 — project is not fuzzed |
| Security-Policy | 10/10 — security policy file detected |
| SAST | 10/10 — SAST tool is run on all commits |
Compare express
Evidence and freshness
- https://registry.npmjs.org/express/5.2.1 — retrieved 2026-10-29T08:44:47.223Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/projects/github.com%2Fexpressjs%2Fexpress — retrieved 2026-10-29T05:09:26.886Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/express/versions/5.2.1 — retrieved 2026-10-29T08:44:47.789Z
- https://api.deps.dev/v3/systems/npm/packages/express/versions/5.2.1:dependencies — retrieved 2026-10-29T08:44:47.847Z