Phase 2 · Node.js Fundamentals
ProjectsSimple HTTP Server (No Framework)
Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
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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