When I first got into web development, I really wanted to build a website where people could go to view interesting recipes. Luckily for me, a local cooking school, Confetti Cuisine, wants me to build them a site with a landing page to reflect their course offerings, a page of recipes, and a place where prospective students can sign up.
As a cooking enthusiast, I thought this project would be a good one that I could use daily. What’s more, this site is going to be fun to build in Node.js. Piecing together all the preceding lessons into a complete multipage application, these steps should sufficiently prepare me to build a static site for Confetti Cuisine.
I’ll start a new application from scratch and add three views, routes for the views and assets, and a public client folder. To start, I’ll build out the application logic with the goal of clean, nonrepetitive code. Then I’ll add some of the public-facing views and custom styling. At the end of this lesson, I’ll have a web server to handle requests to specific files and assets in the project. The final product is one that I can gradually build on and connect to a database at my client’s request.
To create this application, I use the following steps:
7.1. Initializing the application