For my own benefit, setting up node to work with coffeescript.
I was having a hard time getting node setup to work with natively requiring coffescript files. Turns out, there was a recent change that affect how you require coffee script for it to register itself with node.
This is for coffeescript 1.7.0, from the changelog notes:
When requiring CoffeeScript files in Node you must now explicitly register the compiler. This can be done with require 'coffee-script/register' or CoffeeScript.register(). Also for configuration such as Mocha's, use coffee-script/register.
See Here
To run:
nmp install coffee-script
node index.js
You can then hit the server running locally on port 1337 and you should see a message
curl http://localhost:1337
Hello World from joe blow