NPM project initialization

npm init -y

Import Express

const express = require("express");

Activate EJS view engine

app.set('view engine', 'ejs'); app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'views'));

Parse incoming request bodies

app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

Serve static files (e.g. CSS files)

app.use(express.static('public'));