Appendix: Express Setup on a Local Machine
Explore the essential steps to set up a Node and Express application locally with TypeScript. Learn to initialize your environment, install key npm packages like Express, config, and body-parser, and compile your app to run on Node. Understand how to manage dependencies and configurations required for a basic Express server.
Express setup
In order to build a Node and Express application, we just need to initialize a Node environment and install a few npm packages, as well as their corresponding
declaration files as follows:
mkdir node-express-app
cd node-express-app
npm init
npm install express
npm install @types/express --save-dev
We have created a directory named node-express-app, changed into this
directory, and then initialized a Node ...