In this Express JS lesson from Codecademy, we look at how to go about writing your first route. The route we write will take a path and a call back function. The path, we learn, comes after the host and the port. The route of the home page is usually a '/' and this would be equivalent to going to 'anypage.com/'. An about page could usually be found at the 'anypage.com/about'. So the route we create can return data (or respond) to the client that requests the specific route. In this challenge we are asked to create a route called '/expressions' . Once someone hits that route (in other words, navigates their from their browser'), we then console.log the request object which has information the server responds with. **** app.use(express.static("public")); is what allows for our express yourself machine to display once the server is started. The 'public' folder is made visible to our app when we start our server because of 'app.use(express.static()); We specifically want to use the assets within the public folder. ****
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