Contribution activity and bus factor of expressjs/express

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Active contributions

Why expressjs/express is active?

The result is based on ratio of number of commits and code additions from initial and final time ranges.

Initial time range – from 14 Aug, 2023 to 14 Nov, 2023

Final time range – from 15 May, 2024 to 14 Aug, 2024

From 0 to 1 commits per week

Infinity%

From 3 to 22 additions per week

633%

From 1 to 16 deletions per week

1500%

Data calculated on 14 Aug, 2024

Bus factor of expressjs/express

What is Bus factor?

It is basically a number of most active contributors responsible for 80% of contributions.

Bus factor tries to assess "What happens if a key member of the team is hit by a bus?". The more there are key members, the lower the risk.

The expressjs/express repository has a bus factor of 2.

High risk, a lot of knowledge concentrated in a few people

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

The expressjs/express GitHub repository is essentially the home of Express.js: a standard web applications framework for Node.js. Express.js is widely recognized for being uncomplicated, robust, and versatile.

Here's an overview of the repository in markdown:

Name of the Repository: express
Owner: expressjs
Primary Language: JavaScript
Short Description: Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
License: MIT License, one of the permissive licenses.

Express.js provides a smooth and simple interface to create websites and web apps with Node.js. It provides numerous powerful features for web and mobile applications. An exemplary instance of the use of Express.js is the MEAN software bundle: MongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, Node.js.

The contributions range from ways to handle HTTP requests and responses to plugins called 'middleware' that can mechanize almost all facets of web apps creation and the HTTP pipeline.

Extensive Middleware Support: Express.js's middleware stack facilitates the execution of multiple middleware on the same request. Middleware are capable of performing operations on the request and response objects, ending the request/response cycle, and calling the next middleware in the stack.
Easy Routing: Routing is performed on the basis of HTTP method and URL, much like Django and Flask.
View System Supporting 14+ Template Engines: A view system enabling the creation of dynamic content on the webpages by passing variables to the templates.

The repository also includes documentation, wiki, guides, and examples to aid the community to efficiently contribute to it and for developers to easily make use of it.

The expressjs/express repository has broad community engagement, with numerous contributors working on issues and implementing new features.