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Packages & Libraries Used

• Node: JavaScript runtime for executing server-side code
• Express: A web framework for building Node.js applications
• EJS: Template engine for embedding JavaScript into HTML
• SCSS: A CSS preprocessor that adds features like variables and nesting

• Nodemon: Auto-restarting the server during development
• Gulp: Managing SCSS, CSS minification, etc.

Starting the project

• Development Mode

  To start the server in development mode, run the following command; npm run dev

  • Gulp will be ran in watch mode, there by watching changes in the SCSS files & re-build the css files to the destination directory.
  • Nodemon will run the app.js file watching for any changes and re-starting the server and listening for requests on port, specified in the .env file.

• Production Mode

  To start the server in production mode, run the following command; npm run start

  • Gulp will generate minified css files to the destination(public) director from the scss files from the source(src) directory.
  • After the css files are generated, node will run the app.js file, starting the server and listening for requests on port, specified in the .env file.