Node.js Tutorial => JSON API with ExpressJS

Example

var express = require('express');
var cors = require('cors'); // Use cors module for enable Cross-origin resource sharing

var app = express();
app.use(cors()); // for all routes

var port = process.env.PORT || 8080;

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
    var info = {
        'string_value': 'StackOverflow',
        'number_value': 8476
    }
    res.json(info);

    // or
    /* res.send(JSON.stringify({
        string_value: 'StackOverflow',
        number_value: 8476
    })) */

  //you can add a status code to the json response
   /* res.status(200).json(info) */
})

app.listen(port, function() {
    console.log('Node.js listening on port ' + port)
})

On http://localhost:8080/ output object

{
    string_value: "StackOverflow",
    number_value: 8476
}

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