Building an Express Application Chapter 2To run the server, use the following command:
$ nodemon app.jsFile naming conventions
When developing an application, we need to follow a certain convention to name the files.
As we go on building the application, we will have a whole lot of files, which can get
messy. MVC allows for having parallel naming conventions across different folders, which
can lead to the same filenames inside different folders.
We can work on such filenames as well if that is what we find to be easy and maintainable.
Otherwise, we can just append the type of filename to each file, as in the following
example; for a controller file to handle the user-related activities, we can leave it
as controllers/users.js, or we can rename it
to controllers/users_controller.js. We will be using controllers/users for our
application.
The same goes for models, services, or any other folders that need to be shared among
different areas throughout the application. For this application, we will be using the
following naming convention: