Use object with null prototype for settings

[EvanHahn]

express().settings is now an object with a null prototype. This simplifies the code.

[EvanHahn]

Just rebased this.

[EvanHahn]

Anything else I should do here? No rush from me, just wanna make sure I'm not blocking anything.

[dougwilson]

Hey! No, these 5.x changes are good. I'm just waiting to merge after the 4.x branch is merged in to reduce the merge conflicts is all. That should be very soon, as the 4.x changes landed are supposed to be out next week! Thank you for your hard work and discovering this issue. API is more sane now thanks to you 😊

[EvanHahn]

Great, thanks!!

If there are other things that need doing, feel free to reach out to me@evanhahn.com and I'll see if I can help.

[EvanHahn]

This has been open for over a year. No rush from me, but let me know if there's anything I can do to move this along.

[EvanHahn]

It seems that the 5.x branch was rebased against main. That means that this PR is primarily a code cleanup, and should be ready to merge.

[wesleytodd]

#4861 is merged which created a conflict here. If you want to resolve it go for it (its super simple) or I can with a local merge (instead of just clicking the buttons). I will leave it here for a bit and if I don't hear back will merge it when I circle back.

[EvanHahn]

Fixed, I believe.

[wesleytodd]

Hm, it still doesn't like it, but afaict that was the line which changed in both. This is the reason not to leave branches to become stale this long, sorry about the difficulty. I will pull and check it locally now.

[wesleytodd]

🤷 merged in the referenced cherry-picked version above.