Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

Starting a server in Koa

To get started with starting a server in Koa, we should first create a project directory and enter that directory. We can do so with the following commands:

mkdir koa-servercd koa-server

Next, we initialize a project in npm with the following command:

npm init

After running this command, follow the prompts to help create a package.json file for your project.

You can run npm init –y to create a package.json file for your project with default values.

Next, we can install Koa to our project with the following command:

npm i koa

Now that we have Koa installed, we can create our server file. Let's call the file index.js. If you are using a Unix-based operating system such as Linux or macOS, you can create the file ...