Learning Node.js Development

Initialization of an application

The first step we'll take inside of the Terminal is that we'll make a directory to store all of these files. We'll navigate from our home directory to the desktop using the cd Desktop command:

cd Desktop

Then, we'll make a folder to store all of the lesson files for this project.

Now, these lesson files will be available in the resources section for every section, so if you get stuck or your code just isn't working for some reason, you can download the lesson files, compare your files, and figure out where things went wrong.

Now, we'll make that folder using the mkdir command, which is the short form for make directory. Let's call the folder notes-node, as shown in the following code:

mkdir notes-node

We'll ...