diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 19c541a..a140783 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@ shows.db
 .DS_Store
 env.py
 modules/env.py
+node_modules
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1105f4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+{
+    "name": "node-api",
+    "main": "server.js",
+    "dependencies": {
+        "express": "~4.0.0",
+        "mongoose": "~3.6.13",
+        "body-parser": "~1.0.1"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/server.js b/server.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81f1883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server.js
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+// server.js
+
+// BASE SETUP
+// =============================================================================
+
+// call the packages we need
+var express    = require('express');        // call express
+var app        = express();                 // define our app using express
+var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
+var sqlite3 = require('sqlite3').verbose(); 
+
+
+// configure app to use bodyParser()
+// this will let us get the data from a POST
+app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));
+app.use(bodyParser.json());
+
+var port = 3147;        // set our port
+
+// ROUTES FOR OUR API
+// =============================================================================
+var router = express.Router();              // get an instance of the express Router
+
+// test route to make sure everything is working (accessed at GET http://localhost:8080/api)
+router.get('/', function(req, res) {
+    res.json({ message: 'hooray! welcome to our api!' });   
+});
+
+router.get('/seasoned', function(req, res) {
+	var db_path = 'shows.db';
+	var db = new sqlite3.Database(db_path);
+	var returnMsg;
+	var id = req.param('id');
+	db.serialize(function() {
+		db.get("SELECT * FROM stray_eps WHERE id = '" + id + "'", function(err, row) {  
+			returnMsg = row;
+			// res.json({message: row});
+            		// returnList.push(row.original, row.full_path, row.last_name);    
+    		}), console.log(returnMsg);
+	}), console.log(returnMsg);   
+	// console.log(returnMsg);
+	// db.close();
+	db.close();
+	res.json({message: toString(returnMsg)});	
+	//console.log(returnMsg);
+});
+// more routes for our API will happen here
+
+// REGISTER OUR ROUTES -------------------------------
+// all of our routes will be prefixed with /api
+app.use('/api', router);
+
+// START THE SERVER
+// =============================================================================
+app.listen(port);
+console.log('Magic happens on port ' + port);