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.