express app server 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 mongoose = require('mongoose');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

app.use(bodyParser.json());
const PORT = process.env.PORT || 3000;

app.use(bodyParser.json());

//connecting to db
try {
    mongoose.connect('mongodb://localhost/YOUR_DB_NAME', {
        useNewUrlParser: true,
        useUnifiedTopology: true,
      	useCreateIndex: true,
      }, () =>
      console.log("connected"));
  } catch (error) {
    console.log("could not connect");
  }

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}`));