express start server code example

Example 1: how to make an express server

// this is your code
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// first you should install express in the terminal
// `npm i express`.
const express = require('express');
const app = express();

// route
app.get('/', (req,res)=>{
  // Sending This is the home page! in the page
  res.send('This is the home page!');
});

// Listening to the port
let PORT = 3000;
app.listen(PORT)

// FINISH!

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: node express start code

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}`)
})

Example 4: require express server.js

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

Example 5: js express server

const http = require('http')
const express = require('express')

const app = express()
const server = http.Server(app)
app.set('port', 8888)
server.listen(8888)

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.json({teste: true})
})

Example 6: create express server local

// create directory

//npm init -y
//npm i express --save

//create public directory
//create server.js

// <---- In the server js file --->

'use strict';

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
app.use(express.static('public'));// to connect with frontend html
app.use(express.json());//body parse

app.get('/', function(req,res){
	res.send('This is the Homepage');
  	//res.sendFile('index.html');
});

app.listen(3000);