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JavaScript Node.js Basics 2017 Building a Command Line Application Getting the Response Body

Posted by Benjamin Mercier
Benjamin Mercier
270 Points

What is the statusCode?

I very new to note. Please someone help me to understand the statusCode!

Mark Rinkel
Mark Rinkel
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Mark Rinkel
Mark Rinkel
13,501 Points

They tell you the status of the page. Here's a list: https://www.restapitutorial.com/httpstatuscodes.html

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Dilip Agheda
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Dilip Agheda
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Benjamin Mercier status code is not a node specific concept. it is more related to HTTP protocol in general. statusCode basically means that every time, when a http request is made it results in a response that has some sort of status code to indicate what happened to that http request.

in a typical scenario, when http request is successful, status code is 200 which means "OK". similarly 404 means file not found. checkout this wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes for more info.

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statusCode is an object property related to HTTP requests. Basically, when making an HTTP request, you get a response object. This response object contains properties that you can access.

It's just like any other javascript object. This:

var person = {
    name : "John Doe",
    number : "123-1231"
};

console.log(person.name);

would return the person's name. Imagine the response object being structured the same way. It would contain various properties and methods.

var response = {
    statusCode : "200"....
};