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JavaScript Express Basics Deeper into Routing with Express POST Requests

Posted by Erick Perez
Erick Perez
6,724 Points

What is the command to launch the web server when running this app?

I can't fins the section where Andrew teacher how to launch the web server that serves these page we are building in this section.

Erick Perez
Erick Perez
6,724 Points

I figured it out. It's just: node app.js

Vitor Pereira
Vitor Pereira
17,475 Points

If you already installed nodemon I think is nodemon app.js

1 Answer

Chris Adams
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Chris Adams
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 29,422 Points

A little late to the game here, but just to clarify for anyone else - in some of the earlier exercises, Andrew had us install nodemon via the terminal / console. nodemon always starts the file you've identified against "main" in the package.json file:

{
  "name": "treehouse-flashcards",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "app.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "express": "^4.15.2",
    "pug": "^3.0.2"
  }
}

So, as long as you're in the root directory, if you just enter nodemon into the terminal / console, it should launch app.js (as we've specified above in the package.json file). Weeeeeeeeeeeeee