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Let's perform the following steps to create an API status endpoint for our Express application:

1. First, let's create a new route for all our API requests. Create a new file called /routes/api.js; inside this file, we will define two new routes:

var express = require('express');var router = express.Router();router.get('/', function(req, res, next) { res.send('API is running');});router.get('/:param', function(req, res, next) { var params = req.params; var query = req.query; Object.assign(params, query); res.json(params);});module.exports = router;

2. Next, we will update our /app.js configuration to import this new route, and provide it to Express as middleware using the use command:

...var api = require('./routes/api');var ...