Express - Exercise #1 - Server & Routing

​ Objective:

• Getting practice with routing in Express ​

Task - Routing, Routing, Routing...

​ Create a new folder in your projects folder and a server.js file ​

• Install express via npm install express
• Setup an Express server and let it run on a port
• Provide a success message that the server started up
• Define an array with the DCI course modules at the top of the file: ['HTML/CSS', 'JavaScript', 'DOM', 'NodeJS', 'Data Server', 'Fullstack Server', 'Final Project']
• Setup three routes
  • Route /json: Send the whole array as JSON to the browser
  • Route /text: Send the Modules comma separated as string back to the browser, like so => HTML / CSS, JavaScript, DOM, ....
  • Route /html: Send the course entries as HTML list to the browser
• Start the server and test the routes ​ ​

Bonus Task #1

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• Adapt your route for the HTML module list:
  • The module "Data Server" should get printed with bold text in the browser (so within HTML b tags) ​ ​

Bonus Task #2

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• Setup a routes directory ​
  • Create a folder routes
  • Create a file index.js in that folder
    • Create an instance of express.Router() here
    • Move your three routes from server.js to there
    • Also move the modules array to there
    • Attach the three routes to the router
    • Export the router
    • In app.js: Import the router and attach it to the route "/" ​ ​

Bonus Task #3

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• Setup a controllers directory
  • create a file indexController.js
  • In route index.js:
    • Outsource the module array and your three route functions into the controller file
    • Export the functions and import them in the route index.js file