{
  "id": 6915618,
  "title": "You Don't Need Express to Build a Microservice (Here's the Zero-Dependency Version)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/you-dont-need-express-to-build-a-microservice-heres-the-zero",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-12T11:30:54.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/dev_encyclopedia/you-dont-need-express-to-build-a-microservice-heres-the-zero-dependency-version-921"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Open ten \"Node.js microservices\" tutorials and nine start the exact same way: install Express, install an HTTP client, write a docker-compose.yml, stand up a message broker. By the time application code shows up, you've installed six things and still don't know if microservices were even the right call. Node ships with everything two communicating services actually need. node:http is the server.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}