HTTP

Learn how to make a web server with the HTTP module in Node.js.

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The web

Websites, much like this one, don’t use a command-line terminal to serve all those beautiful web pages. Simple servers and clients that work using the terminal exist on the transport layer, whereas HTTP resides on the application layer of the internet protocol suite. . This is the layer users interact with using a website’s front-end. Node.js allows us to serve web pages using the http module. Let’s see how a simple server can be made in just a few lines of code:

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