Creating the Notes application

Let's start creating the Notes application as before, by using the Express Generator to give us a starting point:

$ mkdir notes
$ cd notes
$ npm install express-generator@4.x
.. output
$ ./node_modules/.bin/express --ejs .
destination is not empty, continue? [y/N] y

   create : .
   create : ./package.json
   create : ./app.js
   create : ./public
   create : ./public/javascripts
   create : ./public/images
   create : ./public/stylesheets
   create : ./public/stylesheets/style.css
   create : ./routes
   create : ./routes/index.js
   create : ./routes/users.js
   create : ./views
   create : ./views/index.ejs
   create : ./views/error.ejs
   create : ./bin
   create : ./bin/www

   install dependencies:
     $ cd . && npm install

   run the app:
 $ DEBUG=notes:* ...

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