📄️ Project Setup and Dependencies
Welcome to the tutorial. This guide establishes a definitive, opinionated foundation for building a scalable and production-ready REST API with Express.js.
📄️ Configuration
In the previous step, we set up a minimal Express server. However, we hard-coded the port number directly into our src/server.js file. This is bad practice.
📄️ Directory Structure
So far, our project is simple. We have a package.json and a src folder containing: