Week 1 Readings: Node Ecosystem

Lecture

File naming

• Use kabob case
• Don't use uppercase letters
• Caps for README

node.js

• node is a env that lets you write js on servers
• built on V8, which is a very fast js engine
• written in C and C++

package.json

• dependencies & how to start project

modules

• code that can be referenced in other files
• modules.exports = function() {} allows to use our own code elsewhere with the use of require()
• They are objects

modules

• test folder
• describe()
• it()
• expect(res).toBe()

Readings