Started project by creating simple user functionality methods and set up node dependencies.

fileIO.js

@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+
+/** Used to read and write files from disk */
+const fs = require('fs');
+
+module.exports =
+    {
+        writeJSONToFile: function(fileName, jsonObject)
+        {
+            const json = JSON.stringify(jsonObject, null, 4);
+            fs.writeFile(fileName, json, 'utf8', function()
+            {
+                console.log("Wrote to " + fileName);
+            });
+        },
+
+
+        /**
+         *
+         * @param fileName
+         * @returns {any}
+         */
+        getFileAsJSON: function(fileName)
+        {
+            return JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(fileName, 'utf8'));
+        }
+    };

server.js

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/** express app for routing */
+const express = require("express");
+
+/**session data for login and storing preferences*/
+const session = require('express-session');
+
+const fileIO = require('./fileIO');
+
+
+const app = express();
+
+
+app.use(express.urlencoded());
+app.use(express.json());      // if needed
+
+/**Initializes sessions for login */
+app.use(session({ secret: "sessionSecret", cookie: { maxAge: 6000000 }}));
+
+/** Template engine */
+const whiskers = require('whiskers');
+
+
+const CONFIG_FILE_NAME = "conf.json";
+const config = fileIO.getFileAsJSON(CONFIG_FILE_NAME);