Maybe a fairer comparison is Sinatra? That is, Express is a lot slimmer than Rails and works via a DSL based around the HTTP verbs[1]. Another JS framework to

Maybe a fairer comparison is Sinatra? That is, Express is a lot slimmer than Rails and works via a DSL based around the HTTP verbs[1]. Another JS framework to look at is Backbone[2]. [1] http://expressjs.com/guide.html#routing http://expressjs.com/guide.html#routing [2] http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/ http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/