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Hello and welcome to this video.

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In this video, I'm going to initialize, he knew no doubt this project.

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Open up your command prompt if you on a Windows computer or your terminal.

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If you're on a Mac, I'm going to create the project directory.

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You can create it any way you like.

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I want to create it on my desktop, so I'm going to change directory to my desktop.

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So I've typed in C the space desktop and press enter, and that takes me into my desktop directory.

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So this is where I want to create my project directory to create a new directory.

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You just type in empty space.

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The name of your directory, I've called my directory BLS, so I'm going to press enter and that you

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create a new folder on my desktop.

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You can see the folder here that has been created, which is called Bless.

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The next step is to change directory into the folder I just created.

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So you do that by typing in see this space.

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The name of the directory you just created, I'm press enter and that takes you into that directory

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to initialize a new Node.js project, you type in npm space init space.

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That's why the npm init command is a step by step tool that you can use to scaffold out your project.

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So it will prompt you for a variety of questions which you can answer yes or no to by using the dash.

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After the npm space in it, it will answer yes to any prompts that npm might display on the screen.

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So I'm just going to press enter to that and then you can see what it does.

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So you can see you.

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Usually it'll prompt you for an answer to all this, but because I've used it, that's why it automatically

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accepted all the default prompts.

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I've got my code editor open, which is Visual Studio code.

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So if I want to view the project folder inside my code editor, I just drag the folder and drop it in

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my editor, and that will enable me to view the files and the project so you might get this prompt that

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pops up.

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Just click on the checkbox and click Trust.

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So I now have my project directory inside my code editor.

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So if I click on the package toward JS on file, which was created using the npm command, you can see

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the content of the package JSON file.

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All Node.js projects should contain a package, thought Jason File.

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When the project is initialized, the Potato JS on file basically contains important metadata information

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about the project.

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It also defines functional attributes of a project that npm uses to install dependencies to run scripts

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and also to identify the entry point into an application or package.