Hello friend! This should get you all set up with the scaffolding for a website that runs on a local server using JavaScript(with Node.js and Express), HTML + CSS.

Here are some instructions for running this starter code. We're going to be using a command-line interface. (I'm writing this from the perspective of a Mac user using Terminal (zsh). If you're a Windows user, you might use Powershell. If you use Visual Studio Code, you might find this page helpful.)

1. Clone this repo to your computer.

Once you've got it, navigate to the directory (ex: $ cd starter-code)

2. Make sure you have Node and npm installed.

Check to see if you can run $ node -v and $ npm -v (My versions are v16.15.0 for node and 8.10.0 for npm.)

3. Install the Express module using npm.

ex: $ npm install express

4. Run the example app using Node:

ex: $ node App.js

You should see the message Server is running on http://localhost:8000

If you instead see an error message like Error: Cannot find module 'express' -- see step 3.

5. View your website

Open a web browser (e.g. Google Chrome) to this URL: http://localhost:8000/

You should see a delicious and fabulously designed website! Nice!

6. Make it your own!

Here's the file directory of this repository.

Edit the HTML files and the CSS stylesheet to make them your own!

Edit App.js if you want to add new pages, change how pages route to one another, if you've renamed your HTML files, etc.

starter-code
│   README.md
│   App.js    		// main JavaScript file
│
└───public 		// this where all of our content is stored
   │   index.html       // The initial view for our webpage
   │   a.html 		
   │   b.html 		// these are other pages our website links to
   │   c.html
   │
   └───css
   │  	│   styles.css    // our CSS stylesheet!
   │   
   └───images	         //images used by our website are stored here
   	│   bunny.jpg 	
   	└───...

Alternatively: Delete everything and start over if you want to learn how to set this up on your own, or in your own way. Here are the pages I referenced, from which you can learn everything you need to set up this code on your own:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-create-a-web-server-in-node-js-with-the-http-module" https://expressjs.com/en/starter/hello-world.html https://codeforgeek.com/render-html-file-expressjs/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32257736/app-use-express-serve-multiple-html