Step 1: Initialise your App

Author: nikkaroraa

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+node_modules/

README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# React 1.0: Basic React App
+
+## Step 1: Initialise your App
+
+	npm init
+	npm install --save express
+ 
+After installing the dependencies, create a new file **server.js** in your root directory.
+
+**server.js**
+
+	const express = require("express");
+	const app = express();
+
+	app.listen(3000, function() {
+	    console.log("Listening on port 3000")
+	});
+

package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+{
+  "name": "react-basic-setup",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "description": "",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "author": "",
+  "license": "ISC",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "express": "^4.15.3"
+  }
+}

server.js

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+const express = require("express");
+const app = express();
+
+app.use ( express.static("static/") );
+
+app.listen(3000, function() {
+    console.log("Listening on port 3000")
+});