express basic setup code example

Example 1: express hello world

//to run : node filename.js
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
const port = 3000

app.get('/', (req, res) => res.send('Hello World!'))

app.listen(port, () => console.log(`Example app listening at http://localhost:${port}`))

//visit localhost:3000
// assuming you have done 1) npm init 2) npm install express

Example 2: simple express server

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('<h1>Some HTML</h1>');
  res.send('<p>Even more HTML</p>');
});

app.listen(PORT, () => console.log(`Server is listening on port ${PORT}`));

Example 3: setup node js express basic setup

npm init -y
npm i express

Example 4: node express setup

yarn add express 
yarn add --dev @types/express

Example 5: require express server.js

const express = require('express')const app = express() app.get('/', function (req, res) {  res.send('Hello World')}) app.listen(3000)