Back End Development and APIs Projects - Timestamp Microservice

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Back End Development and APIs Projects - Timestamp Microservice

// index.js
// where your node app starts

// init project
var express = require('express');
var app = express();

// enable CORS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing)
// so that your API is remotely testable by FCC 
var cors = require('cors');
app.use(cors({optionsSuccessStatus: 200}));  // some legacy browsers choke on 204

// http://expressjs.com/en/starter/static-files.html
app.use(express.static('public'));

// http://expressjs.com/en/starter/basic-routing.html
app.get("/", function (req, res) {
  res.sendFile(__dirname + '/views/index.html');
});

const isInvalidDate = (date) => date.toUTCString() === "Invalid Date";

// your first API endpoint... 
app.get("/api/hello", function (req, res) {
  let date = new Date(req.params.date);

  if (isInvalidDate(date)){
    date = new Date(+req.params.date);
  };

  if(isInvalidDate(date)){
    res.json({error: "Invalid Date"});
    return;
  };

  res.json({
    unix: date.getTime(),
    utc: date.toUTCString()
  });
});

app.get("/api", (req, res) => {
  res.json({
    unix: new Date().getTime(),
    utc: new Date().toUTCString()
  });
});

// Listen on port set in environment variable or default to 3000
var listener = app.listen(process.env.PORT || 3000, function () {
  console.log('Your app is listening on port ' + listener.address().port);
});
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