Steps to Create Express Server with Node

Hrishikesh Deshmukh
2 min readJul 11, 2022

Step 1:-

Install Node

Step 2:-

Install NPM

Step 3:-

Install CLI

Step 4:-

Create Folder as MEAN which contains our whole project

Step 5:-

Create sub folder as Server which contains server side code of our application.

Step 6:-

Inside Server Folder Fire Command

npm init -.-y (. just for sepration)

This command creates package.json

Step 7:-

Install Express with body parser using below command

npm install express body-parser -.- save

Step 8:-

Create new file inside server folder as app.js which contains server side code

Step 9:-

Load express using require as

express =require(‘express’);

Step 10:-

Create object of express as

eobj=express();

Step 11:-

Create one variable as port which contains port number

port=5100

Step 12:-

Write method as listen to listen client request as

eobj.listen(port,function()

{

console.log(“Server is in Listening Mode on port 5100”)

})

Step 13:-

Write method as listen to listen client request as

eobj.get(‘/’,function(req,res)

{

res.send(“Server is Running”);

}

)

Step 14:-

Now we can start server as

npm start

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