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Simple HTTP Server (No Framework)
Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap
In short
A basic web server built with only Node's built-in `http` module — before reaching for Express, understand what a framework is actually doing for you.
How to learn this
- 1Build a server that routes different URLs to different responses manually.
- 2Parse the request body and query string without any helper libraries.
- 3Compare the amount of boilerplate this takes versus the same server in Express.
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