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Misc modules that extend Express or provide useful utilities.

Express Expose -- Expose js objects, functions, and modules to client-side scripts
Express Messages -- Flash message display dynamicHelper
Express Configuration -- Async configuration
Express Resource -- Resourceful routing
Express Helpers -- Misc view helpers for Express (broken link, try this package)
Express Load -- Autoload scripts (routes, models, controllers...) into application instance for large Express applications
express-error -- Injects source code into Express 3 error stack for JavaScript and CoffeeScript. Very useful for CoffeeSrcipt. From Barc
express-group -- Group express routes and middleware

Template engines that are Express compliant out of the box.

Jade -- Haml inspired template engine
Haml.js -- Haml implementation
EJS -- Embedded JavaScript template engine
hbs -- adapter for Handlebars.js, an extension of Mustache.js template engine
h4e -- adapter for Hogan.js, with support for partials and layouts
hulk-hogan -- adapter for Twitter's Hogan.js (Mustache syntax), with support for Partials
combyne.js -- A template engine that hopefully works the way you'd expect.
swig -- fast, Django-like template engine
whiskers -- small, fast, mustachioed
Blade -- HTML Template Compiler, inspired by Jade & Haml
Haml-Coffee -- Haml templates where you can write inline CoffeeScript.
Webfiller -- plain-html5 dual-side rendering, self-configuring routes, organized source tree, 100% js.
express-hbs -- Handlebars with layouts, partials and blocks for express 3 from Barc
express3-handlebars -- A Handlebars view engine for Express which doesn't suck.

The Consolidate.js library unifies the APIs of these template engines to a single Express-compatible API.

base12 -- a 12factor.net web app platform, built on express 3. Ported from our 2-year evolving boilerplate at Skookum Digital Works.
Monorail.js -- Ultra lightweight MVC framework for Node.js
Locomotive -- Powerful MVC framework for Node.js. Inspired by Ruby on Rails.
CompoundJS -- High-level MVC framework inspired by RoR
Calipso -- A Content Management System based on Express & Mongoose
Derby -- A real-time, collaborative application framework
Bones -- A client/server application framework built with Express & Backbone
Matador -- MVC framework by the guys at Twitter
Lemmy -- 49% Motherfucker | 51% Son of a Bitch Node.js + Express + Mocha flexible project boilerplate for Javascript/Coffee-Script coders written in Makefile.
Mojito -- Yahoo's MVC framework
Tower.js -- Full Stack Web Framework for Node.js and the Browser. Modeled after Ruby on Rails. Built for the client and server from the ground up.
Railway-routes -- Low level library for generating Rails-style routes.
Chungking -- Low level library for using Rails-style controllers with Express.
sails -- Full stack MVC framework which automatically maps socket.io event handlers to Express routes.

Boilerplate -- boilerplate app supplying Express, Connect, Socket-IO, Jade and more.
express-site-template -- jade, stylus, sessions with redis
backbone-express-mongoose-socketio -- Boilerplate app supplying backbone, mongoose, and socket.io

Visit the Connect wiki for middleware.
Flashify -- for rails type notifications
express-uncapitalize -- redirect HTTP requests containing uppercase to a canonical lowercase form.
express-simple-cdn -- easily use a CDN for your static assets, with multiple host support (ex. cdn1.host.com, cdn2.host.com).