Configuring 'simplest' Node.js + Socket.io + Express Server

Realized after setting up a simple node.js socket.IO server that it isn't sufficient to handle even the simplest webpages containing script tags. So I investigating express which i

Solution 1:

1. Remove the first app.configure wrapper but leave it's contents. It is useless in general, but especially if you don't pass an argument to it.
2. Remove methodOverride and bodyParser as you aren't using them

Solution 2:

Thanks for all the replies. Finally have something that works and am posting so someone else may benefit. My first attempt(above) was obviously NOT the simplest solution:)

//npm install express
//npm install socket.io
var express = require('express');
var server = express.createServer();

server
    .use( server.router )
    .use( express.static(__dirname+'/public') )
    .get('/api', function(req, res) {
        res.write('API');
    });

server=server.listen(3000);

var io = require('socket.io');
var socket = io.listen(server);

socket.on('connection', function (client){
  // new client is here!


});