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Often when starting an Express project, it makes sense to use express-generator to create a starting place for us. But for our purposes this would create a lot of unnecessary files we would have to then delete. That’s because express-generator builds in a lot of user interface-based files like templates and static files (HTML, CSS or client-side JS), which REST services have nothing to do with, being solely data-based. We’ll instead work the other way, and create our app from scratch, which it turns out is not actually too hard to do! Let’s get started.
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