[THIS DOES NOT WORK AT ALL] Simpler named routing feature for express.

app.coffee

...
# before any routing requirings
require './router'
routes = require './routes/index'
...

index.coffee

express = require('express')

router = express.Router()

router.route '/'
.bind 'index'
.get (req, res) ->
  res.render 'index', { title: "named routing" }

router.route '/about/:what'
.bind 'about'
.get (req, res) ->
  res.render 'about', { what: what }

index.jade

extends layout

block content
  h1= title
  ul
    li
      a(href=url('about', { what: 'me' })) about me
    li
      a(href=url('about', { what: 'company' })) about company

router.coffee

###
inspired from https://github.com/silexphp/Silex
put this file onto your preferred place and just require.
###

express = require 'express'

routes = []

###
bind() enables you to name the route

example

router.route '/'
.bind 'your-route-name'
.get blah-blah
.post blah-blah

###
express.Route.prototype.bind = (name) ->
  console.log "#{@path} bound to #{name}"
  routes[name] = @

module.exports = (req, res, next) ->
  ###
  helper url() enables you to generate url related to name that you once specified using bind()
  ###
  res.locals.url = (name, param = {}) ->
    route = routes[name] || { path: "##undefined route:#{name}" }
    pattern = route.path
    chunks = pattern.split '/'
    requiredParams = []
    for c in chunks when c.charAt(0) == ':' then requiredParams.push c.slice 1
    for r in requiredParams
      return "##parameter not satisfied: #{r}" unless r
      p = param[r]
      pattern = pattern.replace ":#{r}", p

    req.baseUrl + pattern
  next()