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edddd
edddd

Reputation: 482

Is Express.js platform-independent?

I'm just starting out with Express.js. In the official getting started guide, they showed the following basic code:

var express = require('express')
var app = express()

// respond with "hello world" when a GET request is made to the homepage
app.get('/', function (req, res) {
  res.send('hello world')
})

The first parameter to app.get() is a forward-slash indicating the root directory. But the slash is a backward-slash in windows systems. Does express deal with these differences automatically, or do we need to write extra code for it? When I was using the http module, I did have to consider and correct for these differences. Thanks for the help!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 76

Answers (1)

deceze
deceze

Reputation: 522005

app.get('/', ...) declares a handler for when an HTTP GET request is made to the URL path /. E.g. http://localhost:8080/. It has nothing to do with file paths on the server’s file system. If you use any functions that do take a file path, you may have to account for the differences between Windows and *NIX, that depends on the function.

Upvotes: 3

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