Learning Node.js Development

Using request as a function

Now that we have the request module installed, we can start using it. Inside Atom we'll wrap up the section by making a request to that URL, in a new file in the root of the project called app.js. This will be the starting point for the weather application. The weather app will be the last command-line app we create. In the future we'll be making the backend for web apps as well as real-time apps using Socket.IO. But to illustrate asynchronous programming, a command-line app is the nicest way to go.

Now, we have our app file, and we can get started by loading in request just like we did with our other npm modules. We'll make a constant variable, call it request, and set it equal to require(request), as shown here: ...