At this point, node is young enough and close enough to the ground, so to speak, that you can copy / paste / implement a lot of things yourself. I'd take a loo

At this point, node is young enough and close enough to the ground, so to speak, that you can copy / paste / implement a lot of things yourself. I'd take a look at node-static for file serving, and journey for JSON routes. Thingler.com is built with those pieces, I believe. You can read the article about it over here: http://www.couchone.com/case-study-thingler http://www.couchone.com/case-study-thingler Edit: Cloudhead wrote all the above things, and is also the author of lesscss.org, which you may have heard of. Also, make sure to keep an eye out for example folders in github repos, as they are generally super helpful. Also also, stop into #node.js, as they are super nice :)