NestJS seems to hit the sweet spot for these. I'd add a proper Result type (from fp-ts) to get better error handling (than try-catch everywhere) and you're good to go.
We've just started looking into that, but the amount of existing raw JS+express we have means adopting something like NestJS is going to be a huge undertaking. What slightly baffles me is that at no point did anyone seem to stop and think if there shouldn't be a better way...
