Getting a Node Application Set Up

1. Install node by running the command below in the terminal
brew install node

2. We are going to put our site in a new directory and open it up in Visual Studio Code. So create a folder on the desktop or wherever you like and open it up.

3. Open up the terminal in Visual Studio Code, you can do this by going to the toolbar at the top of the screen clicking on View > Integrated Terminal

4. Once the terminal is open we are going to run the following commands:
npm init (Press enter through all the options it pops up.)

npm install express (Express is a big library of Javascript functions that will set up our server)

npm install express-generator -g

express --view=pug (Type y then enter if it says "Directory not empty do you want to continue")

npm install -g nodemon

npm install

nodemon

(Hopefully with everything going right your server should now be started, if you open up a browser and go to localhost:3000 you should see the "Welcome to Express" screen