`@tsonic/express`

@tsonic/express is the canonical Express-style package for Tsonic.

Package model

@tsonic/express is the package application code depends on.
The package is a first-party tsonic-source-package.
Applications use it with the @tsonic/js surface and @tsonic/nodejs.
The package owns routing, middleware, request helpers, response helpers, and HTTP hosting integration.

Quick start

tsonic init --surface @tsonic/js
tsonic add npm @tsonic/nodejs
tsonic add npm @tsonic/express
tsonic run

import { express } from "@tsonic/express/index.js";

export async function main(): Promise<void> {
  const app = express.create();
  app.get("/health", async (_req, res, _next) => {
    res.json({ ok: true });
  });
  app.listen(3000, "127.0.0.1");
}

Typical stack

For Node/HTTP-style applications, the normal authored stack is:

@tsonic/js
@tsonic/nodejs
@tsonic/express

Pages

What it covers

The package owns:

router pipeline
route chaining
mount/export behavior
param handlers
application settings and render hooks
core response helpers
host-bound request handling in the same canonical package