How can I make AJAX requests using the Express framework?

Question

I want to send AJAX requests using Express. I am running code that looks like the following:

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.get('/', function(req, res) {
   // here I would like to make an external
   // request to another server
});

app.listen(3000);

How would I do this?

Answer 1

You can use request library

var request = require('request');
request('http://localhost:6000', function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(body) // Print the body of response.
  }
})