Whether I'm going through a tutorial or building a production app, I've often had to begin by creating a basic nodeJs webserver. So I decided to have it on Github with branches for additional packages and functions I can easily acess.

For now, the master branch will hold a basic express app with dotenv to load environment variables from a .env file.

Note: This is NOT the ideal. Something better may already be available if you look for them. I'm just trying to make one that has the config/settings and requirements I mostly use.

Of course, this assumes you have node and npm on your machine.

In your terminal,

• Clone repo git clone git@github.com:johnotu/basic-node-webserver.git
• Install packages npm install
• Launch server node index