Notes on Video #15

Video Notes:

Video 15 of Node JS Tutorial, thenewboston

Video Name: Connect

- a server framework called "connect" - already contains many tools we can use to handle user requests
- to install the "connect" framework, type "npm install connect" into the terminal
- when you connect to the website, it will look to the code for how to handle the request
- the code that handles user requests is called "middleware", place that in the "use" method/command
- the function of "connect" is that you can stack the middleware
- whenever you have a stack of middleware, these functions can be executed one by one
- doFirst has a special third parameter called next where whenever the user makes a request, you can make the function next (called doSecond) happen, basically calls for the next function - could be a very useful function in the future
- eventually, we can inspect paths, what user requests are they making, etc.

var connect = require('connect');
var http = require('http');

var app = connect();

function doFirst(request, response, next){
    console.log("bacon")
    next();
}

function doSecond(request, response, next){
    console.log("tuna")
    next();
}

app.use(doFirst);
    app.use(doSecond);


    http.createServer(app).listen(8888);
console.log('Sever is now running.');

Code used above.