How To Get The Server URL?

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Hello,

This may seem like a basic question, but I’ve been having trouble understanding how to do this.

I am pretty comfortable using fetch() and GET requests on the client side, but I am kinda lost as to how to create a server URL for clients to send requests to.

const host = 'localhost';
const port = 8000;

So a local client can send network requests to http://localhost:8000, but what about remote requests? I feel like I would need to create a server URL for remote clients to use as a destination for fetch() and XMLHttpRequest() requests.

Once I deploy my server.js file to a provider, will they give me a URL that I can then assign to the host variable, and would that be enough to allow remote clients to access my server.js script using network requests?

I would super appreciate if someone could ELI5. Thank you!

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of course, when you deploy your server to a provider such as Heroku, Render, etc… . they will provide a Url that you will provide to your client so that they can use to communicate to your server like fetch('https://exampleurl.com')

This is an article about deploying node.js server with Render for free

I believe I understood your question and answered accordingly,
regards

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@GerrardAfk

Thank you very much.

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