The video tutorial covers setting up middleware, handling errors, and installing the express session module. It guides through creating routes in index.js, configuring views and the EJS view engine, and setting up the app.js file. The session setup is commented out for now, with plans to revisit it once the user actions are implemented. The tutorial ends with a plan to build out a homepage and index page in the next lesson.

How do you set up the view engine for the Express application?

What should be done to the session management code before running the node application?

What is the next step after setting up the templating engine and routes?