Windows equivalent of 'touch' (i.e. the node.js way to create an index.html)

Question

On a windows machine I get this error

\'touch\' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Answer 1

On windows Power Shell, you can use the following command:

New-Item 

or

New-Item  -type file

Note: New-Item can be replaced with its alias ni