richard-d-lee / express-mini-sprint

Express Mini Sprint

Basic Setup

• At the root directory do the following:
  • npm install
  • npm start or nodemon

Client/Server Communications

The client will communicate with your server via jQuery's AJAX. For your convenience the jQuery script is in the index.html file already.

While you are beginning to understand Express focus on understanding the following:

• What the difference is between how this was written in Node and how it is written in Express
• What is in the package.json and how to use scripts and dependencies
• How to spin up a basic server
• What middleware is, where it goes
• What a route handler is and how to write one
• What params are and how to send them from the client and how to read them on the server (client and server side)
• Where to find the data sent in a client request
• How to respond to a request and end the connection
• How to parse json or urlencoded data sent from the client
• What GET/POST/PATCH/DELETE are
• Promises (.then, .catch) and how to use them and return them from a function
• Callbacks
• Model/View/Controller and how to pass data between them
• static routes
• What an endpoint is
• How to traverse the docs for Node, Express, npm packages
• How to use postman to test your routes