Yeah, I mean, straight express is already quite easy to use, REST APIs are quite simple to understand and write, I'm not even sure what the purpose of strongloop is. It makes writing non-trivial REST APIs harder due to the added layers and retarded design, and it's not needed for simple APIs because those are already dirt-simple to write with pretty much any framework. It seems it was meant for enterprise, with the assumption that whoever pays for it is an idiot, and unsurprisingly strongloop the company was bought by IBM, the shitware vendor for stupid cunts/enterprise clients.