Intro to Node Lab

intro_to_node_lab.md

Building Servers with Node

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Lab

We're going to continue building a few basic servers using Node.js. We want to demonstrate that we can serve HTML and JSON using Node anf the http module.

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Problem #1

1. Create a new directory and call it node_people
2. Change into that directory.
3. Run npm init to create your package.json
4. In your index.js, create a server that returns JSON.
5. The JSON you should return will have the following string attributes:

• Name
• Hobby
• Colour
• FavouriteBook

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Problem #2

1. Create a new directory and call it node_about
2. Change into that directory.
3. Run npm init to create your package.json
4. In your index.js, create a server that returns a basic HTML page about yourself.
5. The HTML should return with the following tags:

• html
• body
• h1
• h2
• p

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Problem #3

1. Create a new directory and call it node_turtles
2. Change into that directory.
3. Run npm init to create your package.json
4. In your index.js, create a server that returns JSON about a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.
5. The JSON you should return will have the following attributes:

• Name
• Weapon
• Colour
• FavouriteFood
• Age