NODE JS and EXPRESS Tutorial 1
First lets install Express after we have installed Node.
1 npm install express
Let us again make our index.html file
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7 var fs = require('fs');
// MAKE NEW FILE NAMED INDEX.HTML
fs.open('index.html', 'w', function (err, file) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('SAVED NEW INDEX.HTML FILE');
});
And append some new HTML
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5 // APPEND FILE INDEX.HTML
fs.appendFile('index.html', 'new text', function (err) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log('APPENDING INDEX.HTML FILE');
});
Lets start our Express server and serve the file.
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10 var express = require("express");
var app = express();
var path = require("path");
app.get('/',function(req,res){
res.sendFile(path.join(__dirname+'/index.html'));
});
app.listen(3000);
console.log("Running at Port 3000");
I was just telling my friend about that.