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• New features in 4.x
• Migrating from 2.x to 3.x
• New features in 3.x
• Application Patterns

Others

Misc modules that extend Express or provide useful utilities.

• session.socket.io (SessionSockets) -- Connect middleware sessions in socket.io
• Express Expose -- Expose js objects, functions, and modules to client-side scripts
• Express Messages -- Flash message display dynamicHelper
• Express Configuration -- Async configuration
• Express Resource -- Resourceful routing
• Express Helpers -- Misc view helpers for Express (broken link, try this package)
• Express Load -- Autoload scripts (routes, models, controllers...) into application instance for large Express applications
• express-error -- Injects source code into Express 3 error stack for JavaScript and CoffeeScript. Very useful for CoffeeSrcipt. From Barc
• express-error-with-sources -- Plain javascript port of express-error that have syntax highlighting.
• express-group -- Group express routes and middleware
• express-module-server -- Middleware wrapper for google's module-server
• Express Path -- Easy route mapping for Express
• Express State -- Share configuration and state data of an Express app with the client-side via JavaScript.
• Express Shared Routes -- Small library that let you name routes and easily create navigation components like menus and breadcrumbs.
• [express-switch] (https://github.com/B3rn475/express-switch) -- express-switch is a pattern matching middleware for express

Template Engines

Template engines that are Express compliant out of the box.

• Jade -- Haml inspired template engine
• Haml.js -- Haml implementation
• EJS -- Embedded JavaScript template engine
• hbs -- adapter for Handlebars.js, an extension of Mustache.js template engine
• express-handlebars -- A Handlebars view engine for Express which doesn't suck.
• h4e -- adapter for Hogan.js, with support for partials and layouts
• hulk-hogan -- adapter for Twitter's Hogan.js (Mustache syntax), with support for Partials
• combyne.js -- A template engine that hopefully works the way you'd expect.
• swig -- fast, Django-like template engine
• Nunjucks -- inspired by jinja/twig
• whiskers -- small, fast, mustachioed
• Blade -- HTML Template Compiler, inspired by Jade & Haml
• Haml-Coffee -- Haml templates where you can write inline CoffeeScript.
• Webfiller -- plain-html5 dual-side rendering, self-configuring routes, organized source tree, 100% js.
• express-hbs -- Handlebars with layouts, partials and blocks for express 3 from Barc
• express3-handlebars -- A Handlebars view engine for Express which doesn't suck.
• express-views-dom -- A DOM view engine for Express.
• rivets-server -- Render Rivets.js templates on the server.

The Consolidate.js library unifies the APIs of these template engines to a single Express-compatible API.

Frameworks built with Express

• Feathers -- A minimal data driven wrapper that makes your app real-time in just a few lines.
• base12 -- a 12factor.net web app platform, built on express 3. Ported from our 2-year evolving boilerplate at Skookum Digital Works.
• Monorail.js -- Ultra lightweight MVC framework for Node.js
• Locomotive -- Powerful MVC framework for Node.js. Inspired by Ruby on Rails.
• CompoundJS -- High-level MVC framework inspired by RoR
• Calipso -- A Content Management System based on Express & Mongoose
• Derby -- A real-time, collaborative application framework
• Bones -- A client/server application framework built with Express & Backbone
• Matador -- MVC framework by the guys at Twitter
• Lemmy -- 49% Motherfucker | 51% Son of a Bitch Node.js + Express + Mocha flexible project boilerplate for Javascript/Coffee-Script coders written in Makefile.
• Mojito -- Yahoo's MVC framework
• Tower.js -- Full Stack Web Framework for Node.js and the Browser. Modeled after Ruby on Rails. Built for the client and server from the ground up.
• Railway-routes -- Low level library for generating Rails-style routes.
• Chungking -- Low level library for using Rails-style controllers with Express.
• sails.js -- Realtime MVC framework which normalizes socket.io to Express routes and connect middleware.
• Ghost -- Blogging platform.
• Krakenjs -- A Node.js web application framework by PayPal.
• Keystonejs -- A Node.js CMS and web application platform built on express and mongo.
• Maglev -- Preconfigured simple NodeJS framework built on express 4.1 and mongoose with support of hierarchical role based access control.
• LoopBack -- Powerful Node.js framework for creating APIs and easily connecting to backend data sources.

Boilerplate

• Boilerplate -- boilerplate app supplying Express, Connect, Socket-IO, Jade and more.
• express-site-template -- jade, stylus, sessions with redis
• backbone-express-mongoose-socketio -- Boilerplate app supplying backbone, mongoose, and socket.io
• node-express-mongoose -- A boilerplate application for building web apps using express, mongoose and passport. (demo)
• bearcat-todo -- a simple todo app built on bearcat and express, bearcat makes it easy write simple, maintainable node.js
• node-scaffold -- a beautiful scaffolding module. It generates an app (MVC) based on express and mongoose for a given json configuration.

Middleware

• Visit the Connect wiki for middleware.
• Grant -- OAuth middleware
• Flashify -- for rails type notifications
• express-uncapitalize -- redirect HTTP requests containing uppercase to a canonical lowercase form.
• express-simple-cdn -- easily use a CDN for your static assets, with multiple host support (ex. cdn1.host.com, cdn2.host.com).
• static-expiry -- fingerprinted URLs/Caching Headers for static assets including external domain(s) support.
• express-slash -- Express middleware for people who are anal about trailing slashes.
• express-debug -- unobtrusive development tool that adds a tab with information about req, session, locals, and more to your application.
• view-helpers -- An express middleware that provides common helper methods to the views.
• express-partial-response -- Express middleware for filtering-out parts of JSON responses based on the fields query-string; à la Google API's Partial Response.
• [connect-image-optimus] (https://github.com/msemenistyi/connect-image-optimus) -- Connect/Express middleware for optimal image serving. Switches to webp/jpegxr if possible.
• [express-formwork] (https://github.com/B3rn475/express-formwork) -- a completely asynchronous middleware for form validation and sanitization based on [validator] (https://github.com/chriso/validator.js)