Whether I'm going through a tutorial or building a production app, I've often had to begin by creating a basic nodeJs webserver. So I decided to have it on Github with branches for additional packages and functions I can easily acess.
For now, the master branch will hold a basic express app with dotenv to load environment variables from a .env file.
Note: This is NOT the ideal. Something better may already be available if you look for them. I'm just trying to make one that has the config/settings and requirements I mostly use.
Of course, this assumes you have node and npm on your machine.
In your terminal,
- Clone repo
git clone [email protected]:johnotu/basic-node-webserver.git - Install packages
npm install - Launch server
node index