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Published inNov 2018
Reading LevelIntermediate
PublisherPackt
ISBN-139781789618822
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Eric Traub
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Eric Traub

Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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Setting up Express.js

Let's start building our API or our server to interact with our blockchain data structure. We will be building our API in a new file that we will put into our dev folder. Let's create a new file and call it api.js; this is where we will build our entire API:

Installing Express.js

Now, we are going to use a library called Express.js to build a server or an API. Let's follow the below mentioned steps to install it:

  1. So, head over to Google, search for Express.js npm, and click on the first link ( https://www.npmjs.com/package/express ). This should take you to the following page:
  1. We have to install it as a dependency, so we must run the following command in our terminal:

Now we have...

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Eric Traub

Eric Traub currently works as a software engineer in New York City. He has extensive experience working as a teacher and instructing people in a variety of different subjects. He changed his career from teaching to software engineering because of the excitement it brings to him and the passion that he has for it. He is now lucky enough to have the opportunity to combine both of these passions - software engineering and teaching!
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