Before you continue though, you need to have Node.js and npm installed. If you know JavaScript but you have never done any server-side programming before, this tutorial for you. I believe this tutorial will be particularly helpful if you already have some experience with JavaScript on the frontend. I decided to write this introductory tutorial for anyone who is interested in learning Node after realising that it’s not so easy to read the documentation and figure out how to go about building stuff with Node.
Recently, I decided to learn Node.js properly and do some server-side programming as well. Here is what our index.Updated on JanuHow to Build Your First Node.js Website with Express and Pugįor most of my career as a Web Developer, I worked on the frontend of websites and applications consuming APIs made by other people. Return response.render( " index ", syntax.
Instead of overriding that default, we will also create a folder called views.Ĭonst colors = Īpp.set( " view engine ", " pug ") // notice here we are telling express to render views using the pug templating engine. By default, express expects a folder containing templates to be called views. There are quite a few we can use with Node.js including ejs, but we will be using one called pug (formerly known as jade).īefore we introduce the pug syntax, let's first start a new project and see what we need to include. In order to do that, we need to make use of a templating engine (a tool for dynamically rendering HTML using server data). If we want to simply send HTML back we can use ndFile, but since we are using server-side templates, we will be using a method called render.
So far we have only seen how to respond by sending text, but when building server-side applications, we usually want to send back HTML or JSON / XML (if we're building an RESTful API). By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:
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