learn-co-students / first-ejs-express-lab-abp-11-17

Your First Express App Lab

Objectives

1. Draw a route to a GET '/'
2. Render views/index.ejs as a response.
3. Pass data from the route callback to the view.
4. Use data from the route callback in the view.

Instructions

Just to be safe, before starting the tests or the server, run npm install in your terminal.

You can run the tests with learn.

To start your application, type npm start. The IDE will give you an IP address and port for your application, locally, your application will be running at http://localhost:3000.

GET '/' Route

In app.js, define a route for the root of the application at /. In the callback for that route, you will be rendering a template inside the views directory called index.ejs using resp.render().

Your route callback should also pass a javascript object to the view with a key welcomePhrase that has a value of Hello, World from Express and EJS!.

Finally, make sure you use embedded EJS with <%= %> to write the value of welcomePhrase into the HTML. Add an <h2> below the <h1> and write the contents of the variable as the text of the <h2>