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This is something I've just gone through building Anonymous IRC (http://anonirc.co/). I found the best way to do things was to just jump in and get dirty. It probably took longer than it would have if I had a good tutorial, but I couldn't find a tutorial that was worth using (albeit I didn't try very hard). Express' documentation is just the worst though. Just play around with it.

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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.

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.).

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