Error: getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND in nodejs for get call

getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND means client was not able to connect to given address. Please try specifying host without http: Regarding learning resources, you won’t go wrong if you start with http://www.nodebeginner.org/ and then go through some good book to get more in-depth knowledge – I recommend Professional Node.js , but there’s many out there.

What does “res.render” do, and what does the html file look like?

What does res.render do and what does the html file look like? res.render() function compiles your template (please don’t use ejs), inserts locals there, and creates html output out of those two things. Answering Edit 2 part. So, the template path is views/ (first part) + orders (second part) + .ejs (third part) === views/orders.ejs Anyway, express.js documentation is good for what it does. It is API … Read more

“Topology was destroyed” when using MongoDB with native driver and Express.js

This is because the code contains an anti-pattern: every time a new request comes in, it opens a new database connection, then closes that connection once the response was sent. It then subsequently tried to reuse the closed connection, hence the error message you’re seeing on the 2nd request. What you want is to connect … Read more

What does body-parser do with express?

To handle HTTP POST requests in Express.js version 4 and above, you need to install the middleware module called body-parser. body-parser extracts the entire body portion of an incoming request stream and exposes it on req.body. The middleware was a part of Express.js earlier but now you have to install it separately. This body-parser module parses the JSON, buffer, string and URL encoded data … Read more