Express better then node with crawlee? Or is it really not any big difference?

Express better then node with crawlee? Or is it really not any big difference?

Any short comings with express over node with crawlee or apify sdk?

Hall•9/26/24, 7:08 PM

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Lukas Celnar•9/30/24, 8:36 AM

Hi @IAmKing
There is no need to use express at all.
If you would just want to build a scraper it would be much better to use pure node without any extra complexities.

If you wanna build something more like the basic express API, I recommend you to check out "standby mode" which acts more like a traditional API server.
https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development/programming-interface/standby

Standby mode | Platform | Apify Documentation

Use the Actor as a real-time API server.

Bbroad-salmon Hi @IAmKing There is no need to use express at all. If you would just want to ...

yucky-goldOP•9/30/24, 3:51 PM

Thx for the info. Ill stick with normal node.