jkpeople / node_streams

Exercise

Part 1

• In VS Code, create and open a new folder named “node_streams”
• Create a streams.js file
• Import or require the fs module
• Create a server
• Write a conditional statement that checks the request url for a “GET” request on a “/”
• If the method and url match the previous check (step c), use createReadStream to pipe the contents of an html file to the client
• You can design the html file however you choose
• If the method and url are not “/” and “GET”, use the same method to pipe the contents of a 404 not found html page
• You should send the appropriate status code and headers
• Now run node app and test in postman or the browser

Part 2

• In a new file, fetch data from a source of your choosing (e.g. Pokemon)
• Use the createWriteStream method to create a write stream using an empty json file in your project
• Use the write method to populate the json file with the data from your fetch request

HINT

• You will need to use a third-party fetch api (isomorphic-fetch, node-fetch, Axios, etc) to achieve this in Node