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title: Start a Working Express Server
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## Start a Working Express Server
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If you had a website at "example.com/" and wanted to serve a string such as "Hello World" to whoever visits the root domain you could do so easily using node and/or express:
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```javascript
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app.get("/", function(req, res) {
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res.send("Hello World");
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});
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```
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Also, with ES6+ you can save some typing by using "=>" instead of "function," which looks like:
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```javascript
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app.get("/", (req, res) => {
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res.send("Hello World");
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});
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```
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<a href='https://github.com/freecodecamp/guides/tree/master/src/pages/certifications/apis-and-microservices/basic-node-and-express/start-a-working-express-server/index.md' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>Help our community expand these hints and guides</a>.
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