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JavaScript

Keith Glantz
Keith Glantz
7,146 Points
Posted by Keith Glantz
Keith Glantz
7,146 Points

What's the environment for a node.js app to work on client side?

I just finished node.js basic, and built a similar app like the weather app. Instead of running it on terminal, I wonder what kind of environment I need to setup to make it work in browsers locally and on a live server?

Please list some tools/methods I need to research on, or some articles I need to read.

1 Answer

Kevin Becerra
Kevin Becerra
14,243 Points
Kevin Becerra
Kevin Becerra
14,243 Points

For that project the Environment doesn't change much. If you are using that same API it would work on the browser as well. You would just need to change the code to have it be able to take an input from the browser and also have it be printed out to the browser. Now if you wanted to add some more functionality to it, depending on what exactly you want to add on to it then a setting up a server would come into play.

Kevin Becerra
Kevin Becerra
14,243 Points
Kevin Becerra
Kevin Becerra
14,243 Points

If servers and all that interests you I would recommend you get a little more familiar with NPM and learning how to work your way around the console. Then moving onto Express and MongoDB just because you know how node.js kinda works and you won't be as overwhelmed by it.