Expressa
★ 451A self-hosted alternative to Airtable
About
Expressa is a Node.js middleware package for building data-driven APIs on top of Express. It targets developers who want a strong CRUD backend with an admin interface rather than a full framework,...
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No ratings yetFeatures
- Django-like admin interface
- REST endpoint generation
- permission management
- collection schema editing
- frontend schema reuse
- custom middleware extension
- event listeners for endpoint behavior
- per-collection storage
- JSON-file persistence
- authenticated requests
Details
- Last Updated
- Jul 6, 2026
- Created
- May 4, 2016
- Install Methods
- package-managersource
- Requirements
- Node.jsExpressMongoDBPostgreSQL
- Authentication
- local
- API
- REST
- Backup & Export
- file-backup
- Runtime / Stack
- Nodejs
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
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