app.js

	// packages AKA dependencies
const express    = require('express'); 		// call express
const app        = express(); 				// define our app using express
// const bodyParser = require('body-parser');

// imports
const models = require('./models/');

// app config

// route section
const router = express.Router(); 

require( './routes/user' )( router, models.User);
require( './routes/recipes' )( router, models.Recipe);

router.get('/', function(req, res) {
	res.json({
		"message": "Welcome to the recipeFlix API! Add '\/recipes' to the URL for deliciousness."
	})
})

// Register router, to prefix all routes w/ '/api' use: app.use('/api', router);
app.use(router);

const port = process.env.PORT || 8008;
app.listen(port);
console.log('now serving on port ' + port);