HTTPS Request in a Node express route - node.js

Question

I tried to get a result of a https request in a route in node express but it fails with the reason: connect ETIMEOUT. Any Idea where I'm wrong?
router.get("/", async (req, res) => {
try {
result = await https.get('https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY');
console.log(result);
res.send(result);
}
catch (err) {
console.log(err);
}
});
EDIT:
The URL is valid and does return something when pasted in browser,
Other endpoints in my API work fine, but they don't have a http request thought. They look like this i.e:
router.get("/", (req, res) => {
try {
res.sendFile("\\\\abc.local\\a$\\b$\\xyz\\001-005-877.pdf");
}
catch (err) {
res.status(500).json({ err: err.toString() });
}
});
EDIT:
For completion:
I had a typo in my index.js/ routing (app.use("/test", require("./routes/test")); which caused the timeout.
Then used this code:
router.get("/", (req, res) => {
request('https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY', function (error, response, body) {
console.log('error:', error);
console.log('statusCode:', response && response.statusCode);
console.log('body:', body);
})
});
I used the module 'request'. as Dijkstra suggested and even though his code (for express default http requests) wasn't working for me, he still provided everything needed to solve the problem, so Thank you.

Answer 1

I believe this is not how https.get() works. Documentation is here.
Possible implementation:
router.get("/", async (req, res) => {
https.get('https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY', (result) => {
console.log('statusCode:', res.statusCode);
console.log('headers:', res.headers);
const data = '';
result.on('data', function (chunk) {
body += chunk;
});
result.on('end', () => {
res.send(JSON.parse(data));
});
}).on('error', (e) => {
console.error(e);
});
});
This is pretty complex code to perform such typical task. That is why there are popular packages to handle all the complex part behind the scene. I prefer to use Request.