Full-Stack React Projects - Second Edition

Configuring Express

To use Express, we will install it and then add and configure it in the server/express.js file.

From the command line, run the following command to install the express module and to have the package.json file automatically updated:

yarn add express

Once Express has been installed, we can import it into the express.js file, configure it as required, and make it available to the rest of the app.

mern-skeleton/server/express.js:

import express from 'express'const app = express()  /*... configure express ... */export default app

To handle HTTP requests and serve responses properly, we will use the following modules to configure Express:

• body-parser: Request body-parsing middleware to handle the complexities of parsing streamable ...