... in the previous chapters...

What if I tell you generating images is actually an easy task, and you can create a simple placehold.it clone with only a bunch of lines.
Installing dependencies Let's start with the basics. We will start with express and sharp and create a very very simple setup:

import express from 'express'; import sharp from 'sharp'; const port = 8000; const app = express(); 

Project initialization. Let's start by creating an empty folder and initializing our package.json with npm init. We will also include express to set up our application, express-validator to validate the form submission, and mustache (mustache-express) to render the form.

npm init -y npm i --save express express-validator mustache-express

The basics. With our packages ready, let's go on and create our index.js. We will...