Month: January 2015

Express: What’s It Doing? In a Nutshell …

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Let’s walk through an app and talk about all of it’s parts. Since there’s a lot of details, I’m going to stick to bullet-point format and walk through each line of code, putting explanations in layman’s terms. Here we go! Express API Here’s our app:

Express App
JavaScript
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var express = require('express')
var app = express()
 
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('Hello World!')
})
 
var server = app.listen(3000, function () {
 
  var host = server.address().address
  var port = server.address().port
 
  console.log('Example app listening at http://%s:%s', host, port)
 
})

var express = require('express') Remember: we’re using Nodejs, which is sufficient on […]