Node.js and Express Application Tools

• Git for version control (Heroku dependency)


• Jade for templating


• Stylus for CSS preprocessing


• Redis for session storage


• MongoDB for campaign storage


• Mongoose, a MongoDB ORM


• Passport for authentication


• Jake, like Make, but for Javascript


• Make for running tests. (I hope to use only Make or Jake but ran into issues getting Mocha to run with Jake)


• Mocha for testing


• JSHint for code linting


• Docco for documentation