README.md

GDG Js Crash Course week 4 - Http server with Express

This is a repo going over the steps taken during the fourth lessons of the London GDG group JS course.

Steps

• setup

  • npm init and install express
  • setup basic listening server on server.js
  • install and setup nodemon for easy reload with npm start script

• hello world

  • send a string as a response
  • inspect the cookie-cutter html file and remember the js script
  • send the file instead

• serve multiple files

  • uncomment the script and css and check the error
  • create new route to serve js
  • copy/paste for css
  • use express static instead

• form and post

  • create route for the newsletter.html page
  • handle request by saving it to file and sending a success message