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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node - Second Edition
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In this chapter, we explored Node.js from the ground up. We started by understanding its architecture: the V8 engine that provides core JavaScript capabilities, the Native Modules system that gives access to the file system, networking, and other OS-level resources, and libuv with its event loop that powers Node's asynchronous I/O model. We learned how the event loop processes tasks across its phases and why this design makes Node well suited for highly concurrent workloads.
We then put this knowledge into practice by building a basic HTTP server, handling different routes and HTTP methods, parsing incoming request data from streams, and returning responses. Along the way, we covered fundamental web concepts like HTTP verbs, status codes, headers, and the request/response cycle that underpins all server-side web development.
Finally, we set up our development tooling with the VSCode debugger and nodemon for auto-restart, giving us an efficient workflow for the chapters ahead...