express.js

What it does

Deployed in our application as it is an easy to configure/customise framework. Express allowed us to define routes of our application based off of our own URLs, integrate EJS and middleware, create a REST API server, and connect to the project’s MongoDB database.

Where we used it

Express is used for out server-side Node.js code. Specifically, app.js sets up the express application, routes/ handles the different endpoint urls used by our backend, and controllers/ implement the logic for the API endpoints.