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JavaScript Build a Simple Dynamic Site with Node.js Creating a Simple Server in Node.js Preparing & Planning

Giovanni Dalla Rizza
Giovanni Dalla Rizza
10,637 Points
Posted by Giovanni Dalla Rizza
Giovanni Dalla Rizza
10,637 Points

Help with Preparing & Planning

I'm on Node just for few days and this is the first time I write code server-side. Can someone could give me help explaining point 2 and 3 of solution procees?

Points are:

  1. handle HTTP route GET / and POST /
  2. handle HTTP route GET /:username

Thanks! Those lessons confuse me a little bit!:D

Ben Myhre
Ben Myhre
28,726 Points

Here is my understanding

  1. HTTP is the structured text that both the server and the client is expecting. It is the language, or protocol, that everybody is agreeing to communicate with.

  2. GET and POST... these are the HTTP verbs (and methods) associated with what you are trying to do. Generally, when you submit a form, you are using POST. When you are retrieving information, you are using GET. There are others, but GET and POST are the most commonly used. http://www.restapitutorial.com/lessons/httpmethods.html

  3. The ROUTE is both the HTTP method (GET/POST) AND the full path. So... one route will be http://www.awesomeurl.com/ and another will be http://www.awesomeurl.com/myusername. Both of these will likely be GETs, but they will act differently based on the route. In this case, the first will display the home page. The second will display the results.