Lesson 4. Building a simple web server in Node.js

This lesson covers some basic functions of the http module, a Node.js library of code used for handling requests over the internet. The tech community raves about Node.js and its use of JavaScript as a server-side language. In this lesson, you build your first web server. In a few short steps, you convert a couple of lines of JavaScript to an application with which you can communicate on your web browser.

This lesson covers

  • Generating a basic web server using Node.js and npm
  • Writing code that processes requests from a browser and sends back a response
  • Running a web server in your browser
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