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I have this system

1. An API system which only response with JSON objects. Example: response: {name:'Aesome 1', age: '13'}

2. ExpressJS web app which creates the views and sends the views to the user.

Now what I need to do it to get the JSON object from the API and render a view in ExpressJS and then send to the client.

So I need to connect the ExpressJS app with this api system.

Please let me know how to do this.

Thanks

I have this system

1. An API system which only response with JSON objects. Example: http://example./user/13 response: {name:'Aesome 1', age: '13'}

2. ExpressJS web app which creates the views and sends the views to the user.

Now what I need to do it to get the JSON object from the API and render a view in ExpressJS and then send to the client.

So I need to connect the ExpressJS app with this api system.

Please let me know how to do this.

Thanks

• javascript
• node.js
• api
• express

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You can use the request module for making api requests.

In your controller, do like this:

var request = require('request');

function(req, res) {
    request.get('http://example./user/13', function(err, response, body) {
        if (!err && response.statusCode == 200) {
            var locals = JSON.parse(body);
            res.render('<YOUR TEMPLATE>', locals);
        }
    }
}

Note: If you really want to access api from server then use the sample, else you can fetch the result using ajax with less overhead of another server to server http call.

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