app.get("/view", (req, res) =>{
request('https://corona.lmao.ninja/countries', (error, response, body) => {
console.error('error:', error);
console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode);
console.log('body:', body);
return res.send(body);
});
});
I have this code working and it gives me an json in my browser. I am new to programing and have no idea how i put this in html or javascript to make a nice looking website.
Start simple. First determine if the body coming back from request() is an object or a string. If it's a string, then you need to parse is using obj=JSON.parse(body) to get an object.
From there you can try the quick and dirty:
res.send(`<html><body>Hi! Here is my json: <span color='red'> ${JSON.toString(obj)}</span></body></html>`)
That should get you started. The next step would be to output various obj fields to separate HTML elements (spans, divs, tables, whatever).
An easier way to do this would be to create a webpage that receives the data from https://corona.lmao.ninja/countries and formats the data using a script.
This should help with that: How to make a JSON call to a url?
If you still want to do it the way you did it above, you should create a separate HTML page that loads the data from /view, then formats it. You should do this on the webpage by using the Fetch API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API