How to create an Express app in minutes?

Create an Express app step by step

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Part 1 : What is Express and how to create and how to create an Express app?

Part 2: How to create an Express app in minutes?

We have Express installed let’s go ahead and create an Express app now.

We are going to create a new file “app.js”. At this moment, we keep this “server.js” file.

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The first thing we need to do is to require Express so we can say

const express = require('express')

Next is to set up an Express app and that is really simple to do all

We need to say is

const app = express()

We invoke the function and create an instance of the express app and store in the constant “app”.

We can call the constant whatever we want but this commonly call as “app”.