Making an Express web app

In this recipe, we're going to combine a lot of previous recipes together, also throwing in a few extra Express features (such as app mounting) in order to create the foundations of an Express-based web app with integrated administration features.

Getting ready

Let's start fresh, from the command line we say:

express profiler

Profiler is the name of our new app, it will be a profile manager for members of the Node community.

We need to edit package.json to say:

{
"name": "Profiler"

, "version": "0.0.1"
, "private": true
, "dependencies": {
"express": "2.5.8"
, "jade": ">= 0.0.1"
, "stylus": "0.27.x"
, "mongoskin": "0.3.6"
}
}

We've set the name to Profiler adding stylus and mongoskin, setting stricter version requirements for mongoskin. Jade and Stylus are built to work with Express, so they're likely to remain compatible with new releases (although we've restricted Stylus to minor version updates). Mongoskin has its own development processes. To ensure our project...