Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Rendering templates at the root

When the server receives a request at the root URL /, we will render template.js in the browser. In server.js, add the following route-handling code to the Express app to receive GET requests at /:

mern-simplesetup/server/server.js:

import template from './../template'app.get('/', (req, res) => {   res.status(200).send(template())})

Finally, configure the Express app to start a server that listens on the specified port for incoming requests:

mern-simplesetup/server/server.js:

let port = process.env.PORT || 3000app.listen(port, function onStart(err) { if (err) {  console.log(err)  } console.info('Server started on port %s.', port)})

With this code, when the server is running, it will be able to accept requests ...