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JavaScript Express Basics Getting Started with Express Creating a Server in Express

Britton Kitchell
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Port Number?

How did the instructor know the port number was 3000? I am not entirely clear how those work, but I was under the impression they were randomly generated server side (or something like that). Can anyone clarify?

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Rohald van Merode
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Hi Britton,

In the video Andrew specified the port number in the code on line 5 around the 2:25 minute mark. The listen method will bind and listen for connections on that specified port number when running your code locally. If he would have entered 5000 there the app would have been available on localhost:5000.

Hope this clears things up 🙂