Creating an express web app

Express has long been the most popular choice of web framework, which is unsurprising since it was the first Node web framework of a high enough quality for mass consumption while also drawing from familiar paradigms presented in the Sinatra web framework for Ruby on Rails.

In this recipe, we'll look at how to put together an Express web application.

Getting ready

Let's create a folder called app, initialize it as a package, and install express:

$ mkdir app
$ cd app
$ npm install --save express
  

How to do it...

Let's start by...