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categories:
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- Programming Languages
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tags:
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- backend
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- node-js
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- middleware
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---
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# Morgan
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Morgan is middleware that is used to log HTTP requests to the Express instance.
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```js
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app.use(morgan("dev"));
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```
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With Morgan in place, every time we run a request it will be logged on the
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console that is running our Node application, e.g:
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```plain
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GET /api/courses 200 95 - 1.774 ms
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```
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This uses the `tiny` default which logs the bare minimum giving us: request
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type; endpoint; response code; and time to execute. But there are more verbose
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settings.
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It defaults to logging on the console but can also be configured to write to a
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log file.
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