Microsoft Word is a very popular word processor. It is a popular format for making and exchanging documents. Therefore, a feature of a lot of apps is to create Word documents from other kinds of documents. Creating Word documents is easy in Node.js apps with third party libraries. We can make an app from it easily ourselves.
We will start with the back end. To start, we will create a project folder with the backend folder inside. Then in the backend folder run npx express-generator to create the Express app. Then run npm i to install the packages Next we install our own packages. We need Babel for run the app with the latest version of JavaScript, CORS for cross domain requests with front end, HTML-DOCX-JS for converting HTML strings to Word documents, Multer for file upload, Sequelize for ORM, and SQLite3 for our database.
We then install our packages. We will use CKEditor for our rich text editor, Axios for making HTTP requests, Bootstrap for styling, MobX for simple state management, React Router for routing URLs to components, and Formik and Yup for form value handling and form validation respectively.
