Tracking Response Time of Express App Responses

John Au-Yeung
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readMar 19, 2020

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To gauge the performance of our apps, we need to measure the response time of our API.

To do this with our Express app, we can use the response-time package.

Installation

response-time is available as a Node package. We can install it by running:

npm install response-time

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