In the Hello World example we used the send()
method of the Response object to send a simple string as a response, and to close the connection:
(req, res) => res.send('Hello World!')
If you pass in a string, it sets the Content-Type
header to text/html
.
if you pass in an object or an array, it sets the application/json
Content-Type
header, and parses that parameter into JSON.
After this, send()
closes the connection.
send()
automatically sets the Content-Length
HTTP response header, unlike end()
which requires you to do that.
Use end() to send an empty response
An alternative way to send the response, without any body, it’s by using the Response.end()
method:
res.end()
Set the HTTP response status
Use the status()
method on the response object:
res.status(404).end()
or
res.status(404).send('File not found')
sendStatus()
is a shortcut:
res.sendStatus(200)
// === res.status(200).send('OK')
res.sendStatus(403)
// === res.status(403).send('Forbidden')
res.sendStatus(404)
// === res.status(404).send('Not Found')
res.sendStatus(500)
// === res.status(500).send('Internal Server Error')
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