I prefer express, async, jade Express is very solid and production ready, it's a good balance of magically handling the default things and not having to code f

I prefer express, async, jade Express is very solid and production ready, it's a good balance of magically handling the default things and not having to code for a totally unique system Async lets you organize your code really well, and works well with the patterns of node.js code. I also like commander for making console interfaces to apps, this can help with testing and administration