An API has many paths, and each path has its own function. When a request arrives, Express compares its path with the path of each route, and calls the function of the route that matches. So /products/count is not /products: it needs a route of its own.
A route can answer any object as JSON. For example, a shop could tell its opening hours like this:
app.get("/hours", (req, res) => {
res.json({ open: 9, close: 18 });
});
To answer how many items an array has, use .length instead of writing the number yourself: the answer stays right when items are added or removed. A path that no route matches, like /contact, gets 404 Not Found: Express has no function to call.
Your app must answer:
GET /products/count → 200 {"count": 4}
GET /about → 200 {"name": "Corner Shop", "currency": "USD"}
GET /contact → 404 (an HTML error page)
GET /products → 200 [{"id": 1, "name": "Mug", "price": 12, "category": "kitchen"}, … all 4 products]
GET / → 200 Welcome to the shop!
Your task: add two routes. GET /products/count answers the number of products as {"count": …}, computed with products.length. GET /about answers the shop's name, "Corner Shop", and its currency, "USD".
Assignment
Follow the Coding Tutorial to add the /products/count and /about routes.
Hint
Each new route has the same shape as the others: app.get with its path and a function that takes req and res. Put each object inside res.json(...).
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