JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

Basic server setup using JSON

In Chapter 7, Alternate Implementations of JSON, we already scaffolded a Node server while we worked on the template embedding section. We can either modify it or create a new app. If you are planning to use the same app, you need to do the following:

• Modify the app.js
• Eliminate template-related implementation

After modification, we get following structure in our code base:

Just to get a brief idea about the preceding code, we created a simple HTTP server. The createServer method contains the request parameters req to handle the incoming request and the response instance for the outgoing response to and from ...