Starting Our Node Application package.json

All Node applications will start with a package.json file so let’s begin with that.

    {
      "name": "starter-node-angular",
      "main": "server.js",
      "dependencies": {
        "express" : "~4.5.1",
        "mongoose" : "~3.8.0",
        "body-parser" : "~1.4.2",
        "method-override" : "~2.0.2"        
      }
    }

That’s it! Now our application will know that we want to use Express and Mongoose.

INSTALL NODE MODULES

To install the dependencies we just setup, just go into your console and type:

npm install You’ll see your application working to bring in those modules into the node_modules directory that it creates.

Now that we have those, let’s set up our application in server.js