Preparing for this chapter

In this chapter, I continue to use the webapp project created in Chapter 4. To prepare for this chapter, replace the contents of the handler.ts file in the src folder with the code shown in Listing 5.1.

Tip

You can download the example project for this chapter – and for all the other chapters in this book – from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-Node.js-Web-Development. See Chapter 1 to get help if you have problems running the examples.

Listing 5.1: Replacing the contents of the handler.ts file in the src folder

import { IncomingMessage, ServerResponse } from "http";
export const handler = async (req: IncomingMessage, resp: ServerResponse) => {
    resp.end("Hello, World");
};

Replace the contents of the server.ts file in the src folder with the code shown in Listing 5.2.

Listing 5.2: Replacing the contents of the server.ts file in the src folder

import { createServer...