Node.js 6.x Blueprints

Creating the baseline applications

In this chapter, we will use a slightly modified version of the express-generator that we used in previous chapters.

This generator is called generator-express; it is heavily based on express generator, but with a few more features.

Here are the steps for our installation:

1. Open the terminal/shell and type:

         npm install -g generator-express
   
   

2. Create a folder called chapter04.
3. Open your terminal/shell within the chapter04 folder and type the following command:

         yo express 
   
   

Now, fill the questions in this order:

• Choose N, we already created the project folder in step 2
• Choose MVC for application type
• Choose Swig for template engine
• Choose None for CSS preprocessor
• Choose None for database (later in the chapter, we will set ...