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firefoxman1 on March 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Monorail.js - Ultra lightweight MVC Framework for ...

"How is that light weight?"

Look at the description:

"Monorail.js will never force you to install anything not needed for your project. The goal is to use what you need."

Plus, it's definitely lighter than express.

lojack on March 25, 2012 [–]

As far as I can tell, this actually uses express.

firefoxman1 on March 25, 2012 | [–]

Ah, I stand corrected. I apologize.

I think if I were to use a node MVC framework built on express, I'd go with Matador: http://obvious.github.com/matador/

armnhammer on March 25, 2012 | | [–]

Matador actually looks pretty sweet.

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