A Simple MVC Setup In Node.JS

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I’m sure many of you have heard about the new server side javascript
project called node.js. I’ve been using myself to build full stack
dynamic websites and find it a very nice environment to create a dynamic
website. When I first started out I had no idea what sort of way one
should create an MVC style framework with node or what modules would
help me to achieve the model, view, controller ideal. Heres my stack:

Node.js
(http://nodejs.org/
) of course

NPM
(http://npmjs.org/
) to easily install packages for node.

Express
(http://expressjs.com/
) – a very nice web development framework built on connect (allows “controllers”)

Mongoose
(http://mongoosejs.com/
) – a solid orm for mongodb in node.js that just released a much improved version (allows “models”)

Jade
(http://jade-lang.com/
) – a template engine for node that allows some cool shorthand (allows “views”)

Other tools were used of course but those were the essentials.

The application directory looks something like this:

/app-root
/models
/views
/controllers
/public
/tests
/scripts
/logs
/tmp
app.js

Inside the application I instantiate express, include my mongoose
models and include my routes/controllers from the controllers directory
at the bottom. Inside the controllers I call res.render to render the
jade views and it all works very nicely. If people would like me to
elaborate on this more let me know.

A huge shoutout and thank you to the LearnBoost guys (TJ Holowaychuk,
Guillermo Rauch, Aaron Heckmann, and many more that aren’t associated
with LearnBoost) who’ve made Node.js web application development a
breeze.