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Instructor: So, it's time to start writing some code.

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I'm in my terminal, in my project directory

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which I've called auth.

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I'm gonna create a new file in here, excuse me,

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a new folder whose sole job is going to be

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to hold our API server.

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I'm gonna call it server.

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So, I'm gonna make my new directory called server,

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and then I'll change into it.

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Cool.

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Now, the thing that I wanna do on this server

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is use absolutely no boiler plate, whatsoever.

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So, zero boiler plate.

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We're gonna do the entire server from scratch

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to make sure that we really understand what's going on

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from start to finish.

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So, to get started with our from scratch server,

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the first thing we'll do is create a package.json file

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to hold all of our dependencies for our project.

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To create a package.json file,

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we'll use the npm init command.

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So, I'll run npm init.

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This is going to prompt us with a series of questions.

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Your answer to these questions don't really matter

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at this point or anytime soon.

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And so, I'm just gonna go ahead and hit enter

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to go through each of them.

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That's it.

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And, I've now got a package.json file

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inside of my server directory.

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I'm gonna open my code editor now,

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and pull it onto the screen.

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And cool.

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Here's my working directory server,

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and I've got my package.json .

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Let's go ahead and install a couple of dependencies

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just while we're here.

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I'm going to install a couple dependencies.

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We'll talk about each of them before we use them,

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don't worry.

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But it'd be really nice just to install them ahead of time.

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So, I'm gonna do npm install dash dash save,

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and then we're going to install a couple different ones.

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So, don't hit enter just yet.

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We're going to get express.

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We're going to get Mongoose, two Os on Mongoose.

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Let's make this a little bit bigger.

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There we go.

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We'll get Morgan and one more,

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body dash parser, like so.

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Okay, so let's install these.

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This is gonna take a little bit of time,

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so we'll just let it do its thing for now.

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Back over in our code editor,

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I'm going to now create a new file called index.js

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and this is going to be the main starting point of

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the application.

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So whenever we start our server up,

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this is gonna be the main starting point.

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This is gonna be the first thing to execute.

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Let's check our dependencies out.

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Looks like we're good.

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We've got everything installed at this point.

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By default, if I'm using Git,

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node modules directory here is going to attempt to-

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I'm going to be able to commit it to my GitHub repo.

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I don't ever want to commit my node modules directory,

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so I'm gonna create a new file called .gitignore.

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And I'm gonna add a line in here that says node modules.

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And this just tells Git

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'Hey, ignore node modules

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whenever you're considering files

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to add to my Git repository.'

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Okay, so we're back inside of index.js here.

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Looking good.

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The next thing I wanna do is just try to

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start our server up.

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Let's just see what happens.

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I'm gonna run node index.js .

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This is how we're going to run our server.

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And nothing happens.

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Well, what'd you expect?

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We don't have any code yet, right?

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Nothing happens just yet,

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but just so you know,

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we can run our server at any time,

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by running node space index.js

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and that will start our server up.

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So, this is off to a good start so far.

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Let's go ahead and continue inside the next section

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and add some more code to our project.