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Ship a real backend portfolio with Express and Node.js: a CRUD REST API, JWT authentication, a full-stack MERN app, and a deployed real-time chat app.

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Before Express, learn what Node.js actually is: running JavaScript outside the browser, modules, npm and the built-in APIs Express is built on.

  • Programming with Mosh
    • What Node.js is and how its runtime works
    • CommonJS modules and require/exports
    • npm and package.json basics
    • The built-in http and file system modules
    • The Node event loop, briefly
    • Reading environment variables