Code sample to run express (with Handlebars as the view engine)

express_example.js

var express = require('express');
var cons = require('consolidate');
var http = require('http');
var reload = require('reload');

var app = express();
var server = http.createServer(app);

// Assign the handlebars engine to .html files
app.engine('html', cons.handlebars);

// set .html as the default extension
app.set('view engine', 'html');
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');

// New call to compress content
app.use(express.compress());

// Serving up the content from public directory
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));

// Automatically parse JSON in POST requests
app.use(express.bodyParser());

// Set the sessions
app.use(express.cookieParser());
app.use(express.session({secret: '1234567890QWERTY'}));

// Dump errors
app.use(express.errorHandler({
  dumpExceptions: true,
  showStack: true
}));

app.get('/example/:id', function(req, res) {
  // Perform the operation for the GET
});

app.post('/example',function(req, res) {
  // Perform the operation for the POST
});

// Reload code here
reload(server, app);

// Starts listening on port 3000
server.listen(3000);

console.log("Express server listening on port %d", server.address().port );