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

You're reading from   Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide Build robust and scalable web applications with modern JavaScript techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789345391
Length 132 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Project setup

Once we have all of the prerequisite software installed, we can start to develop our project locally. The first thing that we need to do is initialize our Node.js project.

Initialization

Most modern JavaScript projects and packages have a package.json file. This file specifies various metadata about the project, including the following:

  • Dependencies
  • Descriptions
  • Repository information
  • Config information
  • Common scripts

To initialize our project and create a package.json file, we will run the following command:

npm init

After running the command, a prompt will show up, asking us to fill in some details about the project.

Note: To initialize a project with default values, you can run the npm init command with...
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