Setting up a project

As usual, we will begin development locally by initializing a project with npm. We can run the following command to initialize our project:

npm init
// or npm init -y

Running npm init -y initializes the project with default values in the package.json file.

Installing dependencies

We will be making use of the external dependencies listed here:

• koa: Our base framework.
• koa-router: RESTful Routing middleware for Koa
• koa-logger: Development style logger middleware for Koa
• koa-body: Request body parser middleware for Koa
• koa-session: Session middleware for Koa
• koa-views: Template rendering middleware for Koa
• mongoose: Object data modeling (ODM) library for MongoDB and Node.js
• mongoose-unique-validator: Unique...