Learning Node.js Development

Configuring Express

Express is a no-nonsense library. Now there are a lot of different ways to configure it. So it can get pretty complex. That's why we'll be using it throughout the next couple of chapters. To get started, let's make a directory where we can store all of the code for this app. This app will be our web server.

On the desktop let's us make a directory called node-web-server, by running the mkdir node-web-server command in the Terminal:

Once this directory is created, we'll navigate into it using cd:

And we'll also open it up ...