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Express Generator

Express application generator

Use the application generator tool, express-generator, to quickly create an application skeleton.

The express-generator package installs the express command-line tool. Use the following command to do so:

$ npm install express-generator -g

If you run this command, it creates entire expressjs project for you. i.e. it scaffolds the entire project which is running a model view. There are the files which gets created:

   create : .
   create : ./package.json
   create : ./app.js
   create : ./public
   create : ./routes
   create : ./routes/index.js
   create : ./routes/users.js
   create : ./views
   create : ./views/index.jade
   create : ./views/layout.jade
   create : ./views/error.jade
   create : ./bin
   create : ./bin/www
   create : ./public/javascripts
   create : ./public/images
   create : ./public/stylesheets
   create : ./public/stylesheets/style.css

If you see content of package.json, you will find several dependencies already added into it. So the whole package.json was scaffolded as the part of generator. Then you can see the contents of app.js.

By default when you write express to generate files you get a jade template engine.

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