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Build a simple RESTful API server that will have two endpoints or answer to paths /time and /date when a GET request is made. However, on /date path, we will pretend that there is an internal error and make the request fail in order to see how to handle errors in asynchronous requests as well:

1. Create a new file named api-server.js
2. Include the ExpressJS library and initialize a new ExpressJS application:

      const express = require('express') 
      const app = express() 

3. For /time path, simulates a delay of 2s before sending a response:

      app.get('/time', (req, res) => { 
          setTimeout(() => { 
              res.send(new Date().toTimeString()) 
          }, 2000) 
      }) 

4. For /date path, simulates a delay of 2s before sending a failed response:

 app.get('/date', ...