[mparke]

my first suggestion is then to break your server up into more modules, which should improve your situation. I'm fairly new to node, but currently building a few different apps. I'd recommend reading nodebeginner.org , you can also check out a Node Server git repo i just created tonight, implemented based on that tutorial. https://github.com/mparke/Node-Server-Exploration Feel free to contact me if you want to chat more. I'd love to hear about your experiences with Node.

[michael_miller]

This definitely feels like something that will help a lot. I tend to be doing similar things in many places of my code, like getting the current user's document from the user DB, and handling errors in the same way(by passing {error: "description"} and a status code of 500 back to the client). By factoring out shared/similar code into a library, I think the code will get a lot cleaner. Thanks for the suggestion!

[rgbrgb]

This is really nice, thanks mparke!