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 ...