• Ajax
• DOM
• events
• css selector engine
• traversing
• manipulation
• dimensions
• attributes
• class manipulation
• form serialization
• css
• Animation
• show(), hide(), animate()
• Misc
• data(), parseJSON(), parseHTML()
• Array/NodeList helpers (each(), filter(), etc)
• Type checking (isArray(), isFunction(), etc)

npm install express

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.send('hello world');
});

app.listen(3000);

var merge = require('merge-descriptors');
var connect = require('connect')
  , proto = require('./application')
  , Route = require('./router/route')
  , Router = require('./router')
  , req = require('./request')
  , res = require('./response')
  , utils = connect.utils; 

1. Small (200 LOC or less)
2. Single-Purpose
3. Short Learning Curve
4. Easy to Make
5. Easy to Replace

• pay-as-you-go
• desirable for minimalists and control freaks
• easy to replace individual parts
• easy to re-architect
• you are your own boss
• will have to figure out things for yourself
• directory structure
• OO design
• conventions
• teams? document your decisions

• convenience, ease, comfort, productivity
• built-in global conventions
• inflexibility - gets hard if you go off the "happy path"
• the framework trap - hard to replace

• inflexibility - gets hard if you go off the "happy path"
  
• the framework trap - hard to replace

1. npm + Browserify
2. bower
3. component