22 Oct 2022 · 3 min read

Kecil, part 1 - project set-up

What you need installed

Node.js and npm
MySQL Server
A code editor - VS Code is fine

Check the runtime before writing anything:

node -v && npm -v

Then initialise the project. Every Node app starts the same way, in an empty folder:

npm init

Terminal running npm init and printing the resulting package.json — npm init walks the questions and prints the package.json it is about to write.

It asks a handful of questions. For a personal project the answers barely matter - what matters is the package.json it leaves behind, which is where dependencies get tracked from here on.

That is the whole of part 1: one folder, one file. Set-up is boring on purpose, so the interesting parts do not have to fight the environment.

VS Code explorer showing a KECIL folder containing only package.json — End of part 1. One folder, one file.