Building Dynamic Web Applications with Next.js/

...

/

Solution: Building an Express.js Server

Solution: Building an Express.js Server

Review the step-by-step solution to the exercise.

We'll cover the following...

In this exercise, your objective was to complete the following task:

  • Create an API route named /api/hello that returns a JSON response.

  • Create a middleware to handle server-side errors and respond with a 500 status code and an error message.

  • Implement a middleware to handle 404 errors and respond with a 404 status code and a “Page Not Found” message.

In the next few sections, we’ll review the solution for each task individually.

API routing

Here’s the code for the solution:

Press + to interact
server.get('/api/hello', (req, res) => {
    res.send({ message: 'Hello from the API!' });
  });

Let’s break down the code for API routing: ...