NodeJS Tutorial Part 1 - Install Packages & Simple Static Page

Repository

https://github.com/nodejs/node

What Will I Learn?

• Installing NodeJS
• Installing NodeJS Packages
• Creating a static page with nodejs
• Send My Account Information To The Console (Bouns)

Requirements

• basic knowledge of javascript programming

Difficulty

• Basic

Tutorial Contents

In this tutorial, you will install nodejs, install steem package and create a static web page with nodejs!

let's start by installing nodejs, go to NodeJS Site and download the stable version

install it like any other installation process, easy enough.

now when you finish the installation you can create a new project, first, open a new folder for your project and then open cmd inside there, I use Git Bash but you can use just normal CMD.

if you have git open git bash

now to start the project put in the console, npm init it will create the package.json file to start the project

skip everything but you can change the default entry point of the js file, the default is index.js, I like to use server.js or app.js

now install steem & express packages:

npm install express steem --save

great! now you can create the app.js file or whatever name you gave it.

first add express, steem and path packages.

var express = require('express'),
  steem = require('express'),
  path = require('path');

create express object

const app = express();

give express the ability to use the folder files (to access HTML)

app.use(express.static(path.resolve('')));

now we just need to give the page a port to connect to.

app.listen(80, function(){
  console.log("app started");
});

great, we have our first static page!

so just before we end I want to give a little bonus!

we will get our account details and send it to the console with the steem package

steem.api.getAccounts(['upmeboost'], function(err, res){
  console.log('Username: ' + res[0].name + ", Balance: " + res[0].balance);
  console.log(res);
});

in the next tutorials, I will go deeper on this and we will make cool projects!

Curriculum

• First Tutorial!

Proof of Work Done

https://github.com/upmeboost-utopian

thanks to @atukh09 for giving me that account and helping me with utopian-io!