Like other famous development languages, such as .NET and Java, node.js does have development framework like MVC. This example will show you how to buildup a small MVC web application using express framework. Please note that this example is based on express version 4.13.4 . Let’s create the folders: example under {your_node.js_installed_path}\nodejs\ demo2 under {your_node.js_installed_path}\nodejs\examples\
Before running the app, you need to setup the web.xml, dispatcher-servlet.xml and other property files properly. Let’s update the web.xml file by right-click src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml => Open With Text Editor and then update with below settings: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?> <web-app xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee” xmlns:web=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd” xsi:schemaLocation=”http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd” id=”WebApp_ID” version=”2.5″> <display-name>SpringMVCExample</display-name> <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>