setting up an express server code example
Example 1: how to make an express server
// this is your code
// ZDev1
// 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: express js 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: require express server.js
const express = require('express')const app = express() app.get('/', function (req, res) { res.send('Hello World')}) app.listen(3000)