Creating the project

Open a new command prompt, navigate to a convenient location, and create a folder named part2app. Navigate to the part2app folder and run the command shown in Listing 9.1 to initialize the project and create the package.json file.

Listing 9.1: Initializing the project

npm init -y

In the sections that follow, I go through the process of creating the different parts of the project, starting with the backend server. I start by installing the JavaScript packages each part of the application requires, all of which were introduced in Part 1 of this book.

Installing the application packages

The application packages are those whose features are incorporated into either the backend server or the client-side code. Table 9.1 describes the application packages used in this chapter.

Table 9.1: The application packages used in this chapter

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Name	Description