Create an empty file on the commandline in windows (like the linux touch command)

On a windows machine I get this error

‘touch’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I was following these instructions which seem to be linux specific, but on a standard windows commandline it does not work like this:

touch index.html app.js style.css

Is there a windows equivalent of the ‘touch’ command from the linux / mac os / unix world ? Do I need to create these files by hand (and modify them to change the timestamp) in order to implement this sort of command? I am working with node and that doesn’t seem very … node-ish…

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