On the nodejs side, we will use express package to create our HTTP server. We will also need the reify package so that we can require files that uses the import/export syntax inside nodejs (which doesn't support it natively).

1. Install the new packages:

      npm i -S express reify

2. Download this incomplete server.js file (https://github.com/Akryum/packt-vue-project-guide/blob/master/chapter7-download/server.dev.js) and put it in the project root directory. It already creates an express server and configures the necessary express routes.

For now, we will focus on the development part.