Watching a node.js tutorial on Skillhare

I’m taking a small break from the course materials and watching some node.js tutorials on Skillshare.

I’ve learned about the history of node.js and apparently it was a sort of controversial approach to server-side development at first. JavaScript on the server side? Anyone?

This tutorial I am watching is building an app without any npm dependencies:

• building a router
• building a config system
• building an API
• building an HTTP and an HTTP server …