From the course: Building RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express
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Install Node and Express
From the course: Building RESTful APIs with Node.js and Express
Install Node and Express
- [Instructor] So the next step in the tools we need is to have Node and Express properly installed. We'll also get our project initialized so we can add Express to the package.json file. So let's get to it. So the first thing you need to do is to go to nodejs.org, and on the main page it will say either download for macOS or the operating system that you're currently on. If it doesn't say anything remotely close to your system, you can go in Other Downloads and get the proper installer as such. So in this case, I am going to get the macOS Installer. Then you click on that installer or the one that you got for your system and you follow the instructions. This is going to install Node.js and npm as well which is the tool that we're going to need to install dependencies inside of our package. So if you've done all this before, you've been writing code for a bit, you should already have this in your system, don't worry about…
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