The latest articles on DEV Community by Akhtar Hussain (@akhtar02). https://dev.to/akhtar02 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F746000%2F64cd7b16-2bf5-46e0-8b3a-17f66d4951a8.png https://dev.to/akhtar02 en Akhtar Hussain Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:52:35 +0000 https://dev.to/akhtar02/routing-in-expressjs-40b2 https://dev.to/akhtar02/routing-in-expressjs-40b2 <h2> Introduction </h2> <p>Routing refers to how an application’s endpoints (URIs) respond to client requests. Expressjs official Docs</p> <p>You define routing using express app object corresponding HTTP methods POST and GET method.</p> <h2> For example </h2> <p>The following code shows an example of a very basic route.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--P__CXz6y--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/kzval7ksuv8lmyl5bdw6.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--P__CXz6y--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/kzval7ksuv8lmyl5bdw6.png" alt="Image description" width="660" height="168"></a></p> <h2> Route Methods </h2> <p>A route method is derived from one of the HTTP methods and is attached and called on app object, an instance of the express class.</p> <h2> GET and POST Methods to the root off the app: </h2> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--MuM-Zihd--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/52hvh8vm1f16qezhx82z.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--MuM-Zihd--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/52hvh8vm1f16qezhx82z.png" alt="Image description" width="880" height="168"></a></p> <h2> Route Paths </h2> <p>These routes defined in the above code snippet will map to:<br> <a href="http://localhost:3000/">http://localhost:3000/</a> when app is run locally and matching depends on whether client uses POST or GET method and vice versa.</p> <p><a href="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--k7sK1XJc--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/yxhr7fytwhhkgmijhatx.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/practicaldev/image/fetch/s--k7sK1XJc--/c_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto%2Cw_880/https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/yxhr7fytwhhkgmijhatx.png" alt="Image description" width="544" height="87"></a></p> <p>The above route matches to <a href="http://localhost:3000/about">http://localhost:3000/about</a> when the app is run locally.</p> javascript express webdev programming Akhtar Hussain Tue, 22 Feb 2022 07:50:15 +0000 https://dev.to/akhtar02/hello-world-23ej https://dev.to/akhtar02/hello-world-23ej <p>My First Post </p>