h1. skeleton files required to start a nodejs client app

that accesses one of my APIs.


top-level directory
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js/
modules/
node_modules/
package.json
root/
views/


modules/
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date.format.js - i manually downloaded and placed this module in this directory. i found it on github.

node_modules/
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the command @npm install@ will read the package.json file and automatically create this directory and download the packages listed in the json file.