I am working on creating the classical car API. Now I'm trying to pull a JSON Array from an external file. I made a step toward a resolution, however my "solution" will return the full object, instead of the array json. This is from the vehicles.js file, found under api/routes/

import express from 'express';    
import path from 'path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
import { dirname } from 'path';
const __filename = fileURLToPath(import.meta.url);
const __dirname = dirname(__filename);
const router = express.Router();
router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
    res.status(200).sendFile(path.join(__dirname, '../resources', 'vehicles.json'));
});
export default router;

The app.js looks like this:

import express from 'express';      
const app = express();     

import vehiclesRoute from './api/routes/vehicles.js';


app.use('/vehicles', vehiclesRoute);                                  

export default app; 

Something else I tried was in the lines of:

import parsedJSON from './resources/vehicles.json';
var vehiclesJSON = parsedJSON.vehicles;

router.get('/', (req, res, next) => {
    let vehiclesJSONpath = path.join(__dirname, '../resources', 'vehicles.json');
    res.status(200).fetch(vehiclesJSONpath)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(data => console.log(data));
});

1. Is there a way I can do the parsing and include it in the response body of the callback?
2. Is there maybe a route I need to configure anew, so that the array can be simply extracted? Thanks!