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Edrick Ee
Edrick Ee

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How to set up server-side using express & node

  1. Create your empty repo

  2. Create index.js file (where express is going to be set up)

  3. 'npm init' (if you want to answer some questions). 'npm init -y' (if you want to bypass questions)

  4. Now you will see package.json in your repo. let's download express by 'npm i express'

  5. Now set up nodemon so I can watch server running using 'npm i -D nodemon'. create "start": "nodemon index.js"

  6. set up express server in your index.js

  const express = require('express');
  const app = express();
  const port = 3000;

  app.listen(port, () => console.log (`Successfully started server at port ${port}`);
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