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Setting up the Express, CORS, and the Morgan Middleware

Explore the step-by-step process of setting up Express middleware including express.json() for parsing JSON requests, enabling CORS middleware to allow cross-origin resource sharing, and configuring Morgan to log HTTP requests. This lesson helps you understand essential middleware setup to improve your Node.js server's functionality and debugging capabilities.

Setting up the Express middleware

To set up the express.json() middleware, we take the following steps below:

Step 1: Install the express framework

To add express to the dependency object in our Node application, we run the command below at the root of the project:

npm install express

Step 2: Import and inject the express.json() middleware

To set up the express.json() middleware, we will need to require express in the ...