Advanced Node.js Development

Creating a directory for the project

To kick things off, I'm going to make a new folder on the Desktop for the Node API. I'll use mkdir to create a new folder called node-todo-api. Then, I can go ahead and use cd to go into that directory, cd node-todo-api. And from here, we're going to run npm init, which creates our package.json file and lets us install our MongoDB library. Once again, we're going to be using enter to skip through all of the options, using the defaults for each:

Once we get to the end we can confirm our selections, and now our package.json file is created. The next thing we're going to do is open up this directory inside ...