There are many ways to create a blog using Node JS. One way is to use a blogging platform like WordPress or Joomla, but that’s beyond the scope of this article.
Another way is to use a Node JS platform like Express or NVM to create your own blog server. This is what we’ll be doing in this article.
To get started, we’ll first need to install Node JS on our computer. If you’re not familiar with NodeJS, you can read more about it here.
Once we have Node installed, we can start by installing Express. Express is a NodeJS platform that makes it easy to create web applications. We can install Express by running the following command:.
npm install express
After Express is installed, we can create our blog using the following code:
const express = require ( ‘express’ ); const app = express(); app.use(express.static( ‘/’ )); app.bodyParser()); app.methodOverride()); app.
cookieParser()); app.urlRouter()); app.get(‘/’, function (req, res) { res .json({ message: ‘Hello from the Express blog!’ }); }); const port = 3000; // This will be our port number for our blog server const instance = new express().createServer(app); instance .listen(port, () => { console .log(‘Server listening on port ‘ + port); });.
In this code, we first require Express and then create an app object that contains all of the necessary functions for our blog application. We’ll use the following functions:
app . use (express . static ( ‘/’ )); // Use a static folder for our files app . bodyParser ()); // Use body parsing to convert HTML into a format that Express can understand app . methodOverride ()); // Override methods on requests so that they execute in the same order as they are called in the code (this is useful for handling dynamic content) app .
use (express . cookieParser ()); // Use cookie parsing to identify which cookies should be sent with each request app . urlRouter ()); // Use url routing so that requests go to the correct file when clicked on from a browser })(); const port = 3000 ; // This will be our port number for our blog server const instance = new express (). createServer (app); instance . listen (port , () => { console . log ( ‘Server listening on port ‘ + port ); });.