Quote API Cannot get /

Web Development Back-End
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I just started working on the Quote API project from the back end development path. And I’m trying to run in on my own PC but when I load the localhost:4001 page it just logs “Cannot get /” in the browser. But the same code does run in the codecademy envirement. I can always just finish it on codecademy but I prefer working in VSCODE. Thank for the help in advance. This is the code I’m running:

const express = require(‘express’);
const morgan = require(‘morgan’);
const app = express();

const { quotes } = require(‘./data’);

const { getRandomElement } = require(‘./utils’);

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 4001;

app.use(express.static(‘public’));

app.listen(PORT, () => {
console.log(Listening on ${PORT})
})

Keep in my mind is does work on codecademy but not in my own browser. I just the npm install command before hand and in the console it does log that it is listening on the port.

2

Are you starting the server via the appropriate terminal command first? e.g. ‘node server.js’

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Yes first the server isn’t running so I get the can’t get connection thing. Then I run node node server.js and it shows cannot get /

4

Okay, so the next step is that in order for a server to GET something, there has to be a GET response. Is it still logging its listening message to the console? By the way, the text inside console.log() should be encompassed by backticks like this ‘Listening on ${PORT}’

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I’m sorry for wasting your time. I found out that I didn’t download the HTML & CSS files (I have no idea how this happened). Thank you for the trouble anyways everything is working now.