The Ultimate Express Setup: EJS Templates + Nodemon (Install Guide)
🚀 Express.js
The most popular, unopinionated web application framework for Node.js. It provides a robust set of features for web and mobile applications.
🧰 What is package.json?
The package.json file is used in Node.js projects to manage the project's metadata, dependencies, scripts, and configurations.
EJS 📄 Embedded JavaScript.
This is a simple templating language that lets you generate HTML markup with plain JavaScript. It allows you to inject data from your server directly into your web pages.
Nodemon 🔁 A utility that will automatically restart your Node.js application when it detects file changes in the directory. We install this using the --save-dev flag, as it's only needed for development, not production.
00:08 Make a Folder
00:23 Open folder using CMD in Vscode
00:44 Open New Terminal in Vscode
01:08 Write npm init -y to create package.json into your folder
01:30 Write npm install express to create node modules into your folder
01:44 Write npm install ejs to add ejs dependecy into your folder
02:10 Write npm install -save--dev nodemon to add dependency into your folder
This video is intended to those who are really beginner and looking for how to add it. Hope this helps!