A simple Restify API server example.

app.coffee

bunyan = require 'bunyan'
restify = require 'restify'
requireDir = require 'require-dir'

middleware = requireDir './middleware'
routes = requireDir './routes'
settings = require './settings'

app = restify.createServer
    name: 'Foo Bar API'
    version: '0.0.1'
    log: bunyan.createLogger
        name: 'api'


## MIDDLEWARE:

# Built-ins:
# (see http://mcavage.github.com/node-restify/#Bundled-Plugins for built-ins)
# not bothering to parse Accept headers right now; always sending JSON:
# app.use restify.acceptParser(app.acceptable)
app.use restify.authorizationParser()
app.use restify.dateParser()
app.use restify.queryParser()
app.use restify.bodyParser({mapParams: false, rejectUnknown: false})
# TODO we should enable and test throttling before going to production.
# app.use restify.throttle({###...###})
app.on 'after', restify.auditLogger
    log: app.log

# Custom:
app.use middleware.auth()


## ROUTES:

# General:
app.get '/', (req, res, _) ->
    res.send 'Hello world.'

# Users:
app.get '/users', routes.users.list
app.post '/users', routes.users.create
app.get '/users/:id', routes.users.get
app.post '/users/:id/password_reset', routes.users.requestPassword
app.get '/me', routes.users.getCurrent
app.post '/me', routes.users.updateCurrent
app.patch '/me', routes.users.updateCurrent

# Things:
app.get '/things', routes.things.list
app.post '/things', routes.things.create
app.get '/things/:id', routes.things.get
app.post '/things/:id', routes.things.update
app.patch '/things/:id', routes.things.update
app.del '/things/:id', routes.things.delete


## STARTUP -- listen if we're running; export if we're require()'ing:

if module is require.main
    app.listen settings.PORT, _
    log.info "Foo Bar API (#{settings.ENVIRONMENT}) listening on port #{settings.PORT}..."
else
    module.exports = app

routes_users.coffee

# this file's path is actually routes/users.coffee

_ = require 'underscore'
models = require '../models'  # has an index.js file that calls requireDir()
restify = require 'restify'

{User} = models
{NotImplementedError} = restify


## ROUTES:

# GET /users
@list = (req, res, next) =>
    # TODO
    next new NotImplementedError

# POST /users
@create = (req, res, next) ->
    # (create user...)
    
    res.header 'Location', "/users/#{user.id}"
    res.send 201, jsonify user

# ...


## HELPERS:

# returns the JSON representation of the given user:
jsonify = (user) ->
    _.pick user, 'id', 'firstName', 'lastName', 'username', 'bio'

Nice!
what module do you use as middleware for auth?