Learning Objective:

• In this article, you will learn to create a node js project and run the server.

Task 1: Create Project

    mkdir project-api
    cd project-api
    npm init -y

Task 2: Install Dependencies

    npm install express@next    
    npm install nodemon -D    

• package.json

     "dependencies": {
         "express": "^5.0.0-alpha.8"
      },
     "devDependencies": {
        "nodemon": "^2.0.6"
      }

Task 3: Create app.js

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

    app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Server is listening on port ${port}!`));

Task 4: Run the Server

    nodemon app.js

• Output

  D:\restapi-lab\project-api>nodemon app.js
  [nodemon] 2.0.4
  [nodemon] to restart at any time, enter `rs`
  [nodemon] watching path(s): *.*
  [nodemon] watching extensions: js,mjs,json
  [nodemon] starting `node app.js`
  Server is listening on port 3000!

Git Instructions

  git init
  git status
  git add package.json package-lock.json app.js
  git status
  git commit -m "Project Setup"

Summary

• Successfully, we have created the project and the server is running.