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Akheloes
Akheloes

Reputation: 1372

Send a GET-request after app starts listening

I know this is unorthodox, but I was wondering if there's a way to use a redirect inside of the app.listen, something like this: 

app.listen(app.get('port'), function () {
  //res.redirect("some url")
})

The fact is I need to launch a GET request after the app is on listen mode, after some research I've found it could be done with a redirect; clearly, I don't have a routing and a response object res to afford it.

How could I achieve this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 350

Answers (1)

whites11
whites11

Reputation: 13260

You can simply run an http request in your ready handler function. For instance you could use the request package:

const request = require('request');
app.listen(app.get('port'), function () {
  request('http://your.url', function (error, response, body) {
    // do something with the response
  });
})

Of coure you'll need to npm i request in order for the above example to work and you can choose whatever http client you prefer and replace it.

Upvotes: 2

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