Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript

Creating an Express server

The first thing that we do to set up our project is to create the directory in which we want to write our application; to do so, run the following command in the terminal:

mkdir sorting

Once created, step into the directory by running cd and then run the npm initialization command to set it up as a Node.js project:

cd sortingnpm init

This will ask you a series of questions, which you can answer or leave empty for default answers, either of which is fine. Once your project is initialized, add the following npm package as we have done in previous chapters to help us set up the express server:

npm install express --save

Once added, we are now ready to create our server. Add the following code to a new file at the root ...