How to create Basic Express API

Today, I will Explain How to build an Express API in a few lines.

Anas shahwan
3 min readOct 21, 2021

You probably heard of Express, which is a back-end web application framework for Node Js. It’s designed for building web applications and APIs

Let’s get started

  • We need Node to be installed on our machine. if you don’t have Node, you can download it. https://nodejs.org/en/download/.
  • Open an empty project type npm init inside your Terminal to create our package.json
  • Install express by typing npm install — save Express
  • Create a file Called Server.js or whatever you want to call it.
  • Create an instance called app from Express and listen to port 3000.
  • Open the Terminal Again and type node server.js As you can see Now, Our Server is listening at http://localhost:3000.
  • We are not done yet. We have our Server working and listening at

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Anas shahwan

I'm a Software engineer who loves learning new cool stuff, writing about Technology, and Personal development.