1 - creating express app

mark@in137:~$ cd tmp
mark@in137:~/tmp$ mkdir express-test
mark@in137:~/tmp$ cd express-test
mark@in137:~/tmp/express-test$ express

   create : .
   create : ./package.json
   create : ./app.js
   create : ./public
   create : ./routes
   create : ./routes/index.js
   create : ./views
   create : ./views/layout.jade
   create : ./views/index.jade
   create : ./public/javascripts
   create : ./public/images
   create : ./public/stylesheets
   create : ./public/stylesheets/style.css

   dont forget to install dependencies:
   $ cd . && npm install

mark@in137:~/tmp/express-test$ node -v
v0.4.12
mark@in137:~/tmp/express-test$ npm install
jade@0.20.1 ./node_modules/jade 
├── commander@0.5.2
└── mkdirp@0.3.0
express@2.5.5 ./node_modules/express 
├── mkdirp@0.0.7
├── mime@1.2.4
├── qs@0.4.1
└── connect@1.8.5
mark@in137:~/tmp/express-test$ node app.js 
Express server listening on port 3000 in development mode

2 - looking at process tree

  1  [||||                                      6.6%]     Tasks: 346 total, 1 running
  2  [|||                                       5.3%]     Load average: 0.06 0.07 0.08 
  Mem[|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||2414/3867MB]     Uptime: 03:20:39
  Swp[|                                     2/7628MB]

  PID USER     PRI  NI  VIRT   RES   SHR S CPU% MEM%   TIME+  Command
    1 root      20   0  8352   716   668 S  0.0  0.0  0:00.41 init [2]
25434 mark      20   0 83752  4016  3312 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.00  `- /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-http --spawner :1.8 /org/gt
 4734 mark      20   0  361M 35228 17020 S  1.0  0.9  0:06.75  `- /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/terminator
26258 mark      20   0 22308  5120  1556 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.13  |   `- /bin/bash
26328 mark      20   0 19612  1592  1068 R  1.0  0.0  0:05.90  |   |   `- htop
26161 mark      20   0 22316  5160  1588 S  0.0  0.1  0:00.13  |   `- /bin/bash
26325 mark      20   0  616M 13068  5152 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.22  |   |   `- node app.js
26329 mark      20   0  616M 13068  5152 S  0.0  0.3  0:00.00  |   |       `- node app.js