Learning Node.js Development

Running the request

To run the request, we'll use node and run the app.js file:

node app.js

When we do this, the file will start executing and there will be a really short delay before the body prints to the screen:

What we get back is exactly what we saw in the browser. Some of the properties, such as address_components, show object in this case because we're printing it to the screen. But those properties do indeed exist; we'll talk about how to get them later in the chapter. For now, though, we do have our formatted_address as shown in the preceding screenshot, the geometry object, the place_id, and types. This is what we'll be using to ...