Node.js 8 the Right Way

Advantages of Express

Express is a web application framework for Node.js, modeled after the Ruby project Sinatra.^[66] Express provides a lot of the plumbing code that you’d otherwise end up writing yourself. To see why, let’s take a look at a basic Node.js server using only the http module.

web-services/server.js

'use strict';
const http = require('http');
const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
});
server.listen(60700, () => console.log('Ready!'));

This is quite similar to creating a basic TCP server using the net module like you did way back in Chapter 3, ​Networking with Sockets​. We bring in the http module, call its createServer() ...