Learning Node.js Development

Installing Express

Now that we have our node-web-server directory, we'll install Express so we can get started making our web server. In the Terminal we'll run the clear command first to clear the output. Then we'll run the npm install command. The module name is express and we'll be using the latest version, @4.16.0. We'll also provide the save flag to update the dependencies inside of our package.json file as shown here:

npm install express@4.16.0 --save

Once again we'll use the clear command to clear the Terminal output.

Now that we have Express installed, we can actually create our web server inside Atom. In order to run the server, we ...