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Create Your First NodeJS Server

1. The document provides instructions for creating a basic Node.js script by setting up a project folder and files, initializing with NPM, installing Express, and running a simple HTTP server. 2. It explains how to create a 'citcs' folder and 'server.js' file, initialize an NPM project, install Express, write a basic server code to Express, and run the server with Node.js. 3. Additionally, it recommends installing Nodemon to automatically restart the server on changes to the script file for easier development.

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Create Your First NodeJS Server

1. The document provides instructions for creating a basic Node.js script by setting up a project folder and files, initializing with NPM, installing Express, and running a simple HTTP server. 2. It explains how to create a 'citcs' folder and 'server.js' file, initialize an NPM project, install Express, write a basic server code to Express, and run the server with Node.js. 3. Additionally, it recommends installing Nodemon to automatically restart the server on changes to the script file for easier development.

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Writing your first NodeJS Script

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First, create a folder inside your C:\ drive. Name
it “citcs”. See image below for reference
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Inside the CITCS folder, I want you to create a
new file. Name it “[Link]”.
– You may use notepad++ or VS Code to create a js
file. Just make it sure to save the file inside the citcs
folder.
– See next slide for reference
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Open your command prompt
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In your command prompt window, type the following:
– cd \
– cd citcs
– npm init
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For package name, type “hello_world”
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For version, skip it, just press enter
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For description, enter “nodejs exercises”
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For entry point, skip it, press enter.
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For the succeeding entry, skip it.
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For author, enter your name.
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If being asked if everything is okay, just press enter.
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Output
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Let’s install the nodejs express framework.
– In the command prompt, type “npm install express -
s”
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Open your entire “citcs” folder in VsCode Editor
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Click the “[Link]” file from the file explorer window inside the
VsCode Editor
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Type the following inside the [Link] file
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In JavaScript ES6, semicolon is not required at
the end of your js code.
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We defined the specific port number of our http
server using const port = 8000
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To run our nodejs script, simply type node [Link] in the command line

If your code is correct, we


should have similar output.
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Let say you want to change the port number of
the http server. Changing it to 8888
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Okay,here’s the thing you need to keep in mind.
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Everytime you make some changes in your
nodejs script file, you need to restart the server.
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To restart the http server, go the command line
window the simultaneously press ctrl + c
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Then re-run the http server by typing node [Link] again in the
command line.
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This task is tedious and we want to code smart,
not code hard.
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We will install another extension for nodejs to
automate this task.
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This extension is nodemon.
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In the command line, type npm install nodemon -s -g
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To use nodemon, simple type nodemon [Link] in the command line
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To test the nodemon, make any changes in
your [Link] file and watch how nodemon
handle the changes you made in the nodejs
script file.
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Here, I change the port number to 9999 and nodemon automatically restart the http
server for me.

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