Tutorial Source: https://medium.com/@onejohi/building-a-simple-rest-api-with-nodejs-and-express-da6273ed7ca9

• Create a git repsository Reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46877667/how-to-push-a-new-initial-project-to-github-using-vs-code

  git init
  git commit -m "Initialization of repository"
  git remote add origin "https://github.com/CODevOp/express-rest-API.git"
  git remote -v
  // before running the following command create the respository on github.
  git push -u origin master

• Push updates to git repository

  git push -u origin master
  

• Initialize a new express application

  npm install -g express-generator

• Install express in your application

  npm install express --save

• Run express app

  node app.js

• Ctrl-C to stop server
• Before adding/updating the repository add .gitignore file to prevent git from adding node_modules.

  // copy the file from github using raw file and curl command
  curl -o .gitignore "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Node.gitignore"
  git add .gitignore // adds new files
  git commit -m "Add .gitignore file" // commits change
  git push - u origin master