Learning Node.js Development

Printing message to file

To print the message to a file, let's load in fs up in the server.js file. We'll create a constant. Call that const fs and set that equal to the return result from requiring the module:

const express = require('express');const hbs = require('hbs');const fs = require('fs');

Now we can implement this down following in the app.use. We'll take our template string, which is currently defined inside console.log. We'll cut it out and instead store in a variable. We'll make a variable called log, setting it equal to that template string as shown here:

app.use((req, res, next) => {  var now = new Date().toString();  var log = `${now}: ${req.method} ${req.url}`;  console.log();  next();});

Now we can pass that log variable into ...