Server Side development with Node.js and Koa.js Quick Start Guide

Setting up the router

Next, we will set up our router to handle routing to different pages of our application. We will use koa-router, the popular RESTful routing middleware for Koa.

Let's create a router.js file as shown, which will contain all our route definitions in the middleware folder:

touch middleware/router.js

After creating the file, we can insert the following content into it:

// ./middleware/router.jsconst KoaRouter = require('koa-router');const router = new KoaRouter();router.get('/', ctx => (ctx.body = 'Welcome to the Koa Blog!'));module.exports = router;

In the preceding code block, we require koa-router, and then create a new instance of the middleware and register a simple route for the index route.

Next, we register our ...