This illustration shows a console window containing the commands to create the package.json file:

D:\node\employees-service>npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file. It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sane defaults.

See `npm help json` for definitive documentation on these fields and exactly what they do.

Use `npm install <pkg> --save` afterwards to install a package and save it as a dependency in the package.json file.

Press ^C at any time to quit.
name: (node-server) node-server
version: (1.0.0) 1.0.0
description: Employee RESTful application
entry point: (index.js) server.js
test command: (blank)
git repository: (blank)
keywords: (blank)
author: 
license: (ISC)
About to write to D:\node\employees-service\package.json:

{
  "name": "node-server",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "Employee RESTful application",
  "main": "server.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}


Is this ok? (yes) yes

D:\node\employees-service>