markdown node-project-structure.md

Posted 2021-05-06

# Common Node.js project structure / directory layout

See [*this block*](http://bl.ocks.org/oncletom/b9a0b142bbf4ae1f5b6a). For convenience, see it reproduced below.

    ├── bin
    ├── config
    ├── data
    ├── dist
    ├── doc
    ├── lib
    │   └── models
    ├── node_modules
    ├── src
    │   ├── assets
    │   │   ├── images
    │   │   ├── js
    │   │   └── less
    │   ├── routes
    │   └── views
    ├── tests
    │   ├── fixtures
    │   ├── functional
    │   └── unit
    ├── package.json
    └── README

Other notable resources on the matter:

 * [http://gist.github.com/lancejpollard/1398757](http://gist.github.com/lancejpollard/1398757)
 * [http://stackoverflow.com/a/5193206/272939](http://stackoverflow.com/a/5193206/272939)
 * for express: [http://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html](http://expressjs.com/en/starter/generator.html)
 * [http://www.codemag.com/article/1407041](http://www.codemag.com/article/1407041)