TJ's goal (in my view) is to make a really unopinionated way for node to interact with the web in a modern way, standardizing things like routes, sessions, etc.

TJ's goal (in my view) is to make a really unopinionated way for node to interact with the web in a modern way, standardizing things like routes, sessions, etc. Matador would provide some opinion on top of Express to standardize file locations, or do a Rails-like inference of inflection perhaps. (I haven't looked deeply). I wrote my own version of this last year, and found that it was a really good learning experience, but I didn't think it was worth publishing publicly. However, there is definitely room for a scaffolded MVC prototyping framework on top of Express, imo.