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Asked: 2026-05-26T20:09:13+00:00

For the past 6 months, I’ve been working on my own nodeJS app, where

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For the past 6 months, I’ve been working on my own nodeJS app, where I’ve built everything myself from the ground up. There are only a couple things that my server does, since most of the work in my app is done on the front-end.

One thing I’m currently looking at implementing is a user log-in + facebook authentication system for the app. It seems like every-auth is a much more robust framework for this than anything else out there. However, you need to have Express or Connect to use that.

As such, I’m considering reworking my code to use ConnectJS for (mainly) this purpose. That said, I really like having a really simple server that does only what it needs to do and nothing beyond that. Are there any other modules for authentication that are as robust as every-auth that don’t need Connect that anybody would recommend?

And for those of you that do use Connect – how handy are the other features that it offers? Is it worth gzipping data that would be returned by the server? Is the static file server faster or any different than regular nodejs code that does the same thing?

I’m really on the fence right now and would appreciate any thoughts from people who’ve had experience programming nodejs apps both with and without Connect.

Best,
Sami

AMMENDMENT – if each request that my server receives will at some point involve connecting to MongoDB using node-mongodb-native driver, does this change anything at all? I’m a little confused as to whether or not I can essentially have the code I’ve already written as a module of sorts that acts as one of the middleware items that I can add to connect. If this sentence showcases that I have a complete misunderstanding of what connect does, I’d appreciate any clarification.

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    Connect is a middleware framework. This means it’s all about separation and implementation of third party (read: yours and everyone else’s) middleware. Connect has no overhead compared to a straight node server.

    Connect and Express are both very useful. I’ve also been working with Everyauth and I can say it’s a lot easier than setting up all of your OAuth implementations separately(which I’ve done).

    Here are some links:

    http://howtonode.org/connect-it

    http://tjholowaychuk.com/post/664516126/connect-middleware-for-nodejs

    The Express guide: http://expressjs.com/guide.html

    and a similar, but not duplicate, stack question: What is Node.js' Connect, Express and "middleware"?

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