Express Route Handlers
Let’s look at the details of routing so that we can practice.
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In the previous lesson, we wrote the minimum code necessary to run the server and then accessed it through the browser.
Routes
Every application is usually divided into a bunch of routes. Any page or request we invoke on a website is hitting a specific route on the back-end server. Routes determine how each endpoint should be treated and what logic gets executed.
Each HTTP request type is mapped to a routing method in Express with the syntax app.method(path, callback).
Route methods
The path defines the endpoint or the route path, for example, the / root endpoint. After defining the endpoint, we then perform the matched callback function. Here’s a list of the most common route methods:
- The
getrequest handler is used to retrieve resources