brunch + chaplin + express

app.coffee

server = require("./server")
server.startServer 3333, "public"

config.coffee

exports.config =
  # See http://brunch.readthedocs.org/en/latest/config.html for documentation.
  files:
    javascripts:
      defaultExtension: 'coffee'
      joinTo:
        'javascripts/app.js': /^app/
        'javascripts/vendor.js': /^vendor/
      order:
        before: [
          'vendor/scripts/console-helper.js',
          'vendor/scripts/jquery-1.7.2.js',
          'vendor/scripts/underscore-1.3.3.js',
          'vendor/scripts/backbone-0.9.2.js'
        ]

    stylesheets:
      defaultExtension: 'styl'
      joinTo: 'stylesheets/app.css'
      order:
        before: ['vendor/styles/normalize.css']
        after: ['vendor/styles/helpers.css']

    templates:
      defaultExtension: 'hbs'
      joinTo: 'javascripts/app.js'

  framework: 'chaplin'

  server:
    path: 'server.coffee'
    port: 3333

server.coffee

express = require("express")

exports.startServer = (port, path, callback = (->)) ->
  server = express.createServer()

  server.configure ->
    server.use express.static path
    server.set 'views', path
    server.set 'view options', layout: no
    server.register '.html', compile: (str, options) -> 
    (locals) -> str

  server.get '/', (req, res) ->
    res.render 'index.html'

  server.listen parseInt port, 10
  server.on 'listening', callback