Learn Node.js: The Complete Course for Beginners/

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Getting Started

Getting Started

Explore the process of creating a barebones Node.js app.

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Our task

To really put our newly learned knowledge to test, we shall be creating a food delivery web application. Here are some of the goals we wish to accomplish:

  • View all restaurants
  • Choose items from a restaurant and add them to our cart
  • Calculate a total for the cart and proceed to a checkout

Serving an HTML page

The simplest and easiest way to get started is to create a server. We have already seen how we can create a web server and display text using Node.js in a previous lesson. Now, we shall learn to serve web pages through our server, which is the foundation of our application.

We have created a simple HTML file in the same directory. We can use that page with Node.js using the fs module. Let’s see how that might work.

const http = require('http');
const fs = require('fs')

const hostname = '0.0.0.0';
const port = 3500;

const homePage = fs.readFileSync('main.html')

const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
    res.statusCode = 200;
    res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
    res.write(homePage)
    res.end();
});

server.listen(port, hostname, () => {
    console.log('Server is now running');
});
Hit the RUN button to view the output

We can use the command npm start in ...

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