express request object code example

Example 1: express request path

// GET 'http://www.example.com/admin/new?a=b'
app.get('/admin', (req, res, next) => {
  req.originalUrl; // '/admin/new?a=b' (full path with query string)
  req.baseUrl; // '/admin'
  req.path; // '/new'
  req.baseUrl + req.path; // '/admin/new' (full path without query string)
});

Example 2: express redirect

res.redirect('/foo/bar')
res.redirect('http://example.com')
res.redirect(301, 'http://example.com')
res.redirect('../login')

Example 3: node js http request express

npm install request@2.81.0

Example 4: express get

app.get('/index', (req, res) => {
    res.render('index')
})