Introduction
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A quick over of three ways to create a node.js application |
Creating an Application Base
Method 1
Simply create your .js files and a launch.json file.
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var express = require("express");
var app = express();
app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log("Server running on port 3000");
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When you run this app you will see the message "Cannot GET /". If you check the developer's tools console output you will see the following error "GET http://localhost:3000/ 404 (Not Found). You are seeing this message because you have not set up any event handlers (your application has no endpoints)
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If you want to use import * as module from "module_file" add
When you switch to modules, require(...) will not be usable, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62488898/node-js-syntaxerror-cannot-use-import-statement-outside-a-module |