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How To Setup An Express Server In Node.js

In this tutorial, we are learning how to install express js and start express server. You can use this code by copy-paste.

This tutorial shows you how to use the Express framework and Node.js to get a simple server setting up node.js server and running completely from scratch node js express tutorial.

How To Setup An Express Server In Node.js

Important Terms Getting Started With Node.js

You will also need to have Node and npm installed.

To check if you have Node installed, open your terminal and run:

node -v

Then, To check if you have npm installed, open your terminal and run:

npm -v

Then Create node express tutorials

npm init -y

create

{
  "name": "express-tutorial",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "This Tutorial PHP Coding Stuff",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "Robert Look",
  "license": "MIT"
} 
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How To Setup An Express Server In Node.js

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