[dscb]

It's seems like this will be the plan. Are there any other useful extensions for express that I should be aware of? I currently have it set up with just express and jade. I've been looking into passport for user authentication and _(underscore) seems interesting as well.

[jmsbrwr]

Because I come from a Ruby/Rails background, I opted to go with EJS over Jade. The syntax for EJS is identical to that of Rails (to the extent that, when working with Rails, the <% %> EJS tag becomes <%% %>, so as not to conflict with the <% %> Rails tag.).