building out back and front end apis

backend/routes/notes.routes.js

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+import { Router } from 'express';
+import { readFile } from 'fs/promises';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
+import { dirname, join } from 'path';
 
+const router = Router();
+
+const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
+const __dirname = dirname(__filename);
+const DATA_PATH = join(__dirname, '..', 'data', 'notes.json');
+
+router.get('/', async (req, res) => {
+  try {
+    const raw = await readFile(DATA_PATH, 'utf-8');
+    const notes = JSON.parse(raw);
+    res.json(notes);
+  } catch (err) {
+    res.status(500).json({ error: 'Failed to load notes' });
+  }
+});
+
+export default router;