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Top 3: Packages that you may love

1. Express Js

installation

npm i express
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yarn add express
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usage

const express = require("express") const app = express() app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send("Index Page")) app.listen(3001)
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2. Multer

Makes file uploading super easy

npm i multer
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frontend

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://localhost:3001/upload" method="post"> <input type="file" name="uploaded file"> <input type="text"> <input type="submit" value="Submit!"> </form>
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backend (javasript)

const express = require("express") const multer = require("multer") const app = express() const storage = multer.diskStorage({ destination : (req, res, cb) => { cb(null, './uploads') } }) app.post('/', multer({storage:storage}), (req, res) => { console.log(req.file, req.body) }) app.listen(3001)
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3. nodemon

Actuallly this just helps you to restart your server evrytime you change something

installation

npm i nodemon --save-dev
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yarn add nodemon --dev
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usage

nodemon server.js
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