Empack

A lightweight, Express-based web server framework.

Description

Empack is built on top of Express, Empack provides a familiar development model with TypeScript decorators, dependency injection, and built-in support for WebSocket routing and CQRS — while maintaining minimalism and full control.

Empack is fully compatible with the Express ecosystem, so you can use your favorite middleware, libraries, and tools without modification.

✨ Key Features

• ⚡ A DI container powered by Inversify (supports singleton, transient, and request-scope)
• 🔌 Middleware and controller injection with shared request container
• 📡 Route-based WebSocket controller support with per-connection DI
• 🧩 CQRS via built-in Mediator pattern (with @HandleFor() decorators)
• 📃 Automatic OpenAPI generation from decorators