Express with es6

Express is a framework that easily provide http requests.

To get start you need to create new project by the following in a terminal: Make sure you change example-project to the name of your project.

mdkir example-project
cd example-project
npm init

In order to start using express, you need to install the dependencies by running the following in a terminal:

npm install --save express
npm install babel-cli babel-preset-env babel-loader babel-core nodemon --save-dev

Create index.js and add the following the code to it:

import express from 'express';

const app = express()

app.use(express.json())

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  return res.status(200).send({'message': 'Hello World'});
})

app.listen(3000)
console.log('app running on port ', 3000);

Add the following under scripts in package.json

"scripts": {
  "start": "nodemon index.js --exec babel-node --presets babel-preset-env"
},

Run the following command in the terminal to run the server:

npm run start

Open your favorite browser and go to http://localhost:3000/.