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.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
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 ...