express js 4 how to serve json results without rendering any views /css

Question

I am using express 4 in order to create a json API service. I can\'t seem to define it to send a simple json without trying to render the view.

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Answer 1

eventually it was the express generic catch 404's that made all the routes unvailables.

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
    var err = new Error('Not Found');
    err.status = 404;
    next(err);
});

removing him solved it.