From the course: Express Essentials: Build Powerful Web Apps with Node.js
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What is Express Application Generator?
From the course: Express Essentials: Build Powerful Web Apps with Node.js
What is Express Application Generator?
- [Instructor] Express Application Generator is a package that allows you to quickly and easily get a skeleton project with Express up and running. Speaking from my own experiences with various projects, sometimes the most difficult part about getting started is setting up a project. This takes any of the guesswork out of the equation. Let's head to the official documentation and get started. Express Application Generator provides several options when setting up your project, including whether or not you'd like to use a specific template engine, or the option to add a gitignore file. Here, we can see that there are a variety of options that are available by typing express -h. When we get to the command line, we will try this together as we set up our own project. For this course, we won't be using Express Application Generator because I want to show you the essentials of Express. However, I do want to briefly walk…
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