In this chapter, we learned about the Express web framework for Node and wrote a basic web server from scratch that will act as the foundation for the image uploading website that we will build throughout the remainder of the book.

The web server you wrote handles requests to specific routes, uses controllers to handle the logic for those routes, and supports all of the standard requirements a typical web server should.

In the next chapter, we will cover using the Handlebars template engine to write each of the dynamic HTML pages that the website needs. In addition, we will update the image and home controllers to include the necessary logic to properly render those HTML pages.