How to send data from server to client using AJAX?

I want to query MongoDB and retrieve some documents. Then stream those documents back to the client to populate a <table> without refreshing the page. I already know how to do this using socket.io, but I want to learn how to transfer data without sockets. I am currently getting a Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found) because I do not have a /loadRecent resource, but I do not know how to perform a GET without loading a new page. (I might be missing some basic knowledge on how REST works.) Please advice.

Server code:

#Get recent documents
            app.get '/loadRecent', (req, res) ->
                console.log 'Documents requested...'
                db.collection 'documents', (err, collection) ->
                    collection.find().sort(dateAdded:-1) (err, cursor) ->
                        if not err
                            res.setHeader 'content-type':'application/json'
                            cursor.each (err, item) ->
                                res.write item
                        else
                            console.log 'Error getting recent docs: ' + err

Client code (Right now there is only a console.log, but the plan is to append data to <table> once I get the data flowing through.):

$.getJSON('/loadRecent', function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
            {
                console.log('Data recieved from server: ' + data);
            });