Exporting routes in node.js Express 4

You don't have to inject express into each modules.

requiring express in each file will return the same instance. http://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/modules.html#modules_caching

Also, ask yourself who should be the one registering the router into the app. The app it self or the router ? For code reuse and clean separation you should let the app handle it. Let's say you have an authentication router used with the path '/auth'. You may want to reuse it in another app with a path like '/authentication'

Here's how I would do it.

server.js

//================== ROUTES ======================================
...

var api = require('./routes/api');
var router = require('./routes/web');

app.use('/api', api);
app.use('/', router);

...

apiroutes:

//================================== routes for API ====================================

var express = require('express');

module.exports = (function() {
    'use strict';
    var api = express.Router();

    api.get('/somget', function(req, res) {
        res.send('some json');
    });

    return api;
})();

pages routes (both main template and partials):

//================================== routes for index and partials================================

var express = require('express');

module.exports = (function() {
    'use strict';
    var router = express.Router();

    router.get('/', function(req, res) {
        res.render('index');
    });

    router.get('/partials/:name', function (req, res) {
        var name = req.params.name;
        res.render('partials/' + name);
    });

    return router;    
})();