Organizing the files
Before you get started writing any code, we want to make sure that you have a project folder set up correctly with the proper folder structure to house all of the various files that you will be creating. Get started by creating a new folder for your project, and name it anything you like. Then, inside that folder, create additional folders to match the following structure:
Each of these folders will contain important modules that we will write throughout the remainder of this chapter and book.
You are going to need a package.json file for this project, and the easiest way to create one of these is by simply executing the following ...
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