This is part of Academy's technical curriculum for The Mark. All parts of that curriculum, including this project, are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

We're now going to run your first server and play around with a few existing endpoints that it has.

• Run an Express server locally
• Send back a JSON response in an Express route handler
• Identify when a route handler function is executed
• Test HTTP GET requests in the browser
• Test HTTP GET requests in Postman

Success criterion: you can view evidence your server is running at localhost:4000

Firstly, clone this repository to your local machine, then install dependencies and run it locally.

Try making GET requests to some of the following:

• localhost:4000
• localhost:4000/hits
• localhost:4000/hits-stealth

etc.

(Some routes will give you back the same response each time, and others won't. Why is that?)

🎯 Success criterion: you can visit localhost:5050/hello-world, localhost:5050/ponies/random and localhost:5050/history in the browser, with the expected behaviour below.

Now, you're going to try making changes to the server - in particular, you're going to change the port which it runs on, and try adding some endpoints of your own.

Should respond with the following JSON data:

{
  "english": "Hello world!",
  "esperanto": "Saluton mondo!",
  "hawaiian": "Aloha Honua",
  "turkish": "Merhaba Dünya!"
}

Shows a single random pony from ponies.json. It should be possible to hit the route twice and get back two different ponies.

Shows a list of which (active) routes have been hit in chronological order.

For example, if you visited the following routes after starting your server:

• /ponies
• /hits
• /history
• /um-what-is-this
• /
• /history

Then the response should be something like:

{
  "routes": [
    "/ponies",
    "/hits",
    "/history",
    "/",
    "/history"
  ]
}

(where /um-what-is-this is ignored, because it isn't a defined server endpoint)