Creating a new Jest project

Now that NPM is installed, we can create our project:

1. If you're following along with the book's Git repository, open a Terminal window and navigate to the repository directory that you cloned in the Getting started before Chapter 1 section of the Preface. Otherwise, simply navigate to your local projects directory.
2. Create a new directory using mkdir appointments and then change to it using cd appointments.
3. Enter the npm init command, which begins the process of initializing a new NPM project and generating a package.json file for you.
4. The first questions ask you to provide a package name, version, description, and an entrypoint. Since we're building an appointments system, you can call it appointments. Accept the default version (by just hitting Enter), and enter a description of Appointments system. You can accept the default entrypoint too.
5. Next, you'll be asked for a test command, for which you should type in jest. This will enable you to run tests by using the npm test shortcut command.

1. You'll be asked to specify a repository, which you could just set as example.com for now. If you don’t fill these fields in, npm will print warnings every time you run a command.

1. You can accept the defaults for everything else.

1. Hit Enter on the remaining questions to finish the initialization process.
2. Install Jest using npm install --save-dev jest.

You will see the bottom line of your Terminal fill up with a fast-changing stream of package information as NPM installs dependent packages (a paltry 553 packages at the time of writing). You may see some warnings depending on the platform you are installing on, but these can be ignored. Once complete, you should see this:

npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.

+ jest@24.7.1
+ added 553 packages from 373 contributors and audited 849842 packages in 16.304s
+ found 0 vulnerabilities