Getting Started with RethinkDB

Running our web application

Now that we've written all the code necessary to start our web app, we can try running it. You may remember that the app's entry-point is the app.js file.

We can start our web application by running the following command:

node app.js

If everything works correctly, you will receive no errors and get a few logging messages similar to this:

[127.0.0.1 2015-11-23T09:08:14.739Z] Setting up RethinkDB...
[127.0.0.1 2015-11-23T09:08:14.749Z] Server up and listening on port 8000

As you can see, our Node.js server is running on port 8000, so you access the web app by opening your browser and visiting http://YOUR_IP_ADDRESS:8000.

When the page loads, our web application will look as this:

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