Absolute Organization

[Folder Structure] (https://www.terlici.com/2014/08/25/best-practices-express-structure.html)

• controllers/ – defines your app routes and their logic
• helpers/ – code and functionality to be shared by different parts of the project
• middlewares/ – Express middlewares which process the incoming requests before handling them down to the routes
• models/ – represents data, implements business logic and handles storage
• public/ – contains all static files like images, styles and javascript
• views/ – provides templates which are rendered and served by your routes
• tests/ – tests everything which is in the other folders
• app.js – initializes the app and glues everything together
• package.json – remembers all packages that your app depends on and their versions

Setting up

1. Install nodemon: Automatically restart the node application when files are changed.

npm install -g nodemon

2. Install node packages: Go to the absolute project folder directory

npm install .

3. Run the server: Specifies EJS changes

nodemon -e ejs

References

• https://www.terlici.com/2014/08/25/best-practices-express-structure.html