Merge pull request #17 from dillonstreator/chore/upgrade-express-5

Upgrade to Express 5

Author: dillonstreator

.changeset/express-5-upgrade.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"template-node-express": major
+---
+
+Upgrade to Express 5 and remove `express-async-errors`, relying on Express 5's built-in async error handling.

README.md

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ A minimal production-ready node HTTP server with [`Express`](https://expressjs.c
 ✅ Properly configured request payload size limiting to help prevent Denial of Service attack vectors \
 ✅ `AbortSignal` propagation to prevent unnecessary work (includes example and test)  \
 ✅ Validation with [`express-validator`](https://express-validator.github.io/docs) \
-✅ Async error forwarding to default error handler with [`express-async-errors`](https://github.com/davidbanham/express-async-errors) \
+✅ Async error forwarding to the default error handler (built into Express 5) \
 ✅ Structured logging with [`pino`](https://github.com/pinojs/pino) \
 ✅ Rich request logging middleware including request id, trace id, context propagation, and more \
 ✅ Testing with [`jest`](https://github.com/jestjs/jest), [`supertest`](https://github.com/forwardemail/supertest), and [`fetch-mock`](https://github.com/wheresrhys/fetch-mock) \

package.json

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     "@changesets/cli": "^2.31.1",
     "@jest/globals": "^29.7.0",
     "@types/compression": "^1.8.1",
-    "@types/express": "^4.17.23",
+    "@types/express": "^5.0.6",
     "@types/jest": "^29.5.14",
     "@types/node": "^20.19.9",
     "@types/request-ip": "^0.0.41",
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@
     "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base": "^2.9.0",
     "@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions": "^1.43.0",
     "compression": "^1.8.1",
-    "express": "^4.22.2",
-    "express-async-errors": "^3.1.1",
+    "express": "^5.2.1",
     "express-validator": "^7.3.2",
     "helmet": "^8.1.0",
     "http-graceful-shutdown": "^3.1.16",
@@ -60,6 +59,7 @@
       "protobufjs"
     ],
     "overrides": {
+      "@types/express": "^5.0.6",
       "js-yaml": "^3.15.0",
       "form-data": "^4.0.6",
       "protobufjs": "^7.6.3",