<h3>Hello guys, this blog post will cover following things:</h3><ul><li>Introduction to express-generator</li><li>Installing express-generator</li><li>Creating project using express-generator</li><li>Run Project</li></ul>Ok, so lets get start with it…&nbsp;<h3>Introduction to express-generator</h3>Express-generator is the tool to which builds application skeleton very quickly for you.It’ll install the express CLI for you.&nbsp;<h3>Installing express-generator</h3><span>You can get express-generator from&nbsp;npm&nbsp;site and install in your system using one simple command:</span><pre>npm install -g express-generator</pre>It’ll take couple of minutes of time to install…<span>Once this done we’ll create our project using&nbsp;express&nbsp;command.</span><h3></h3><h3>Creating project using express-generator</h3><span>Now that we’ve installed express-generator, we can use&nbsp;express&nbsp;command to create our very first nodejs project using express-generator.&nbsp;</span>Run following command to create project:<pre>express&nbsp;&lt;project-name&gt;</pre><span>Here, &lt;project-name&gt; is the project and directory name of your choice… like&nbsp;express express-example.</span>This will create all the necessary files for your project:<img width="730" alt="express-generator" src="http://codeportal.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/express-generator-1024x513.png" height="366" title="Image: http://codeportal.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/express-generator-1024x513.png">&nbsp;Great….now let’s run our project…&nbsp;<h3>Run Project</h3>Before running the project we have to install our dependencies. For that cd into the project directory<pre>cd express-example</pre>and install dependencies<pre>npm install</pre><span>This usually takes couple of minutes…till then you can review the project directory&nbsp;¯\\_(ツ)_/¯</span><span>Once that is done run&nbsp;npm start…&nbsp;Now your project is up and running on&nbsp;3000&nbsp;port.</span><span>So if you go&nbsp;<a href="http://localhost:3000/" target="_blank" rel="">http://localhost:3000</a>&nbsp;you can see the express landing page.<br><br></span>

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