express

Express is very flexible, and can work in just about any way you could imagine. Take no offense but it sounds like you aren't very familiar with javascript or node.js and that is okay, but there is much to learn about project organization. It is actually quite easy to organize your code similar to a rails mvc application, the key is being consistent. If you want to see a working example of an mvc style express application, then look at the examples provided with express: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples/... Again, there are many ways to organize your applications, just look around at what other people have done, or use the examples, and you should be able to make yours handle just the same.

No. Keeping all your code in one file is a recipe for maintainability disaster. I've found that with Javascript, proper project organization is even more important than with some other languages. It sounds like you haven't become familiar with Node's CommonJS compatible module system. Try starting there: http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/modules.html Once you understand the basics of modules and requiring, I'd take a look at the ExpressJS example apps for organization ideas: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples

> - Break up your project into libraries. In many cases the very basic examples do not break out the code appropriately for simplicity. However, there are some great examples within express source (i can't remember the exact name) that organize web applications routes into multiple files (and modules). Sounds like route separation: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples/...

Here's a list of CRUD+ apps that I keep open in textmate to consult as examples: I suck at formatting here; apologies in advance. Alex Young's NodePad (from daily.js) (more than a simple CRUD app but helpful nonetheless) https://github.com/alexyoung/nodepad Individual Node + Express examples by TJ (as mentioned in another post) https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples Another basic Node+Express example (by TJ again) https://github.com/visionmedia/finance Guillermo posted a CRUD with Express + Mongoose a few days ago https://github.com/guille/mongoose-meetup-04-05/ There's another VERY simple CRUD app somewhere in the Mongoose Google group as a zipfile(yes, this uses Mongoose as well obviously). I can't seem to find it right now, but I think Siegfried Ehret was the original poster. Email me if you'd lik

I definitely noticed this weird lack of information on Express. I've found the best thing is to check out the examples from Express' own github: https://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master/examples That's useful to see how something is done, but not why or the different options available. For that, there's still a definite lack of a clear guide. The guide on the Express website reads more like an API reference and doesn't go into detail on how to use the different features, which I think would be very helpful. Right now I'm working on my first application using Express. Over the Summer, when I have free time, I'd like to write a tutorial series for Express and put it up on github so it can be updated as Express evolves. That's really one of the main issues right now, all this stuff is changing so rapidly that a tutorial can become

This are a few of the things that I am to following : Server side: Testing: - Expresso [1]: TDD framework for node -- high speed parallel testing! - Zombie.js [2]: fast, headless full-stack testing using Node.js Tools: - load.js [3]: Lazy load your JS - npm [4] a package manager for node - JSDoc [5] Documentation tool - Docco [6] Literate documentation. - underscore [7] provides a lot of the functional programming - node-openid [8] openid. Frameworks: - Express [8] Sinatra inspired web development framework for node [1] http://visionmedia.github.com/expresso/ [2] http://zombie.labnotes.org/ [3] https://github.com/chriso/load.js [4] https://github.com/isaacs/npm [5] https://github.com/micmath/JSDoc [6] https://github.com/jashkenas/docco [7] http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/ [8] https://github.com/havard/node-openid [9] https://g