README.md

Boilerplate for server application

This is a minimal Express.js application for starting your full-stack web application.

Setting up

0. Make sure you have Node.js installed.

1. Copy this entire directory (server-boilerplate) into your project directory. The following files are needed:

   /public/
       /index.html
   /package.json
   /index.js
   

   • /public/ directory is the root of your client-side application (i.e. where the main index.html is served from)
   • package.json contains metadata about your project. npm needs this file to correctly handle all npm commands.
   • index.js is the main server application file.

2. Navigate to the project directory. You should be inside the directory where package.json is located.

   ~$ cd myProject
   ~/myProject$ ls
   index.js  package.json  public
   

3. Run npm install to install the dependencies listed in package.json

   ~/myProject$ npm install
   

4. If the installation was successful, you should now have a node_modules directory in your project.

   ~/myProject$ ls
   index.js  node_modules  package.json  public
   

5. Run node index.js to check that your server is running correctly.

   ~/myProject$ node index.js
   Express.js server started, listening on PORT 3000
   

Your app should now be running on localhost:3000.

Building your application

If everything is working okay, you now have a minimal full-stack application. To continue building on this app, you should update the main index.js file and the client-side application inside /public/ directory.