bodyParser is deprecated express 4

It means that using the bodyParser() constructor has been deprecated, as of 2014-06-19. You now need to call the methods separately And so on. If you’re still getting a warning with urlencoded you need to use The extended config object key now needs to be explicitly passed, since it now has no default value. If you are using Express >= 4.16.0, body parser … Read more

npm install hangs

I had the same problem. The reason – wrong proxy was configured and because of that npm was unable to download packages. So your best bet is to the see the output of and identify the problem. If you have never configured proxy, then possible causes can be Very outdated npm version. Some problem with … Read more

How npm start runs a server on port 8000

If you will look at package.json file. you will see something like this This tells start a http-server at address of localhost on port 8000 http-server is a node-module. Update:- Including comment by @Usman, ideally it should be present in your package.json but if it’s not present you can include it in scripts section.