In your plugins init method you can do
var helpers = module.parent.require('./routes/helpers'); myPlugin.init = function(params, callback) { helpers.setupPageRoute(params.app, '/', params.middleware, [], myCustomHome); callback(); }; function myCustomHome(req, res, next) { async.parallel({ categories: function(next) { Categories.getAllCategories(); } topics: function(next) { Topics.getLatestTopics(); } }, function(err, results) { res.render('myCustomTemplate', results); }); }I left out some of the params for the 2 methods you mentioned. Let me know if you can't figure it out.