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...