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| In contrast, LoopBack is designed to facilitate API creation and composition | ||
| by conventions and patterns as best practices. More types of constructs are | ||
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| ### Why Express Still? |
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Is it better to have Why Express behind the scene?
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| #### Circling back to Express with a twist | ||
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| LoopBack does a lot of things but our value add is the ease of use and data | ||
| processing, not middleware and routing so we didn't want to reinvent the wheel |
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Routing is the part we want to optimize based on controller metadata. As a result, we minimize the usage of Express routing.
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| only for their middleware support). The final decision was to use Express in a | ||
| way that bridges the gap by addressing the gaps identified above as follows: | ||
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fixes #1538
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