Just Express (with a bunch of node and http). In detail.

Explore the pre-express foundation by explaining http and the basics of tcp and udp, then build a Node.js web server without Express to reveal how Express works.

Learn how to set up a node workflow using Visual Studio Code, the built-in terminal, and nodemon for automatic reloads while building an Express server.

Build a Node.js http server that serves html, css, and images by reading files, routing requests, and returning correct mime types and 404 responses.

Explore Express as a fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node.js that simplifies routing and middleware, enabling quick API and web app development with JSON handling.

Learn to serve static files with express by mounting express.static, using a public directory, and delivering images and styles from the root on port 3000.

Explore how Express acts as a router and a web framework built from middleware, using req, res, and next to shape requests and responses through app.use and routes.

Pause to review Express basics from http and tcp to middleware, routing, and static serving, covering the request-response cycle, headers, body parsing, and common response methods.

Configure Express with a view engine to render templates. Choose engines like ejs, handlebars, or pug, set the views directory, and render with res.render and data locals.

Discover how Express uses a view engine like EJS to render dynamic HTML by merging server data with templates, then send HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to the browser.

Explore Handlebars as a rendering engine, compare to EJS, and learn core syntax, nesting, and helpers like each, if, and unless, plus safe escaping.

Learn how to render with templates in express, handle form data with urlencoded, and use cookies to persist a username across login and welcome pages, including redirects and logout.

Explore express route parameters capturing dynamic url segments with /story/:storyId and req.params.storyId, enabling a single route for multiple stories and optional links, plus app.param middleware.

Discover how Express routers modularize applications by isolating routes and middleware in a dedicated router, then mount it on a path to keep code organized.

Review the latest Express concepts, focusing on HTTP headers, router use, cookies, req and res handling, deprecated req.params guidance, and testing with Postman.

Create a movie fan site with express generator, configure ejs views, install helmet and nodemon, and scaffold a bootstrap-based front end with a reusable navbar and starter routes.

Implement a dynamic /movie/:id route with Express and EJS, fetch the movie data from an API, parse it, and render a single movie page with title, poster, and synopsis.

Build the most popular route by filtering the data array for most popular items, implement API key validation, and paginate results to 20 per page.

Build Express movie routes, including top rated with vote average sorting and pages of 20, plus JSON content validation for post and delete with rating checks.

Explore building search routes in an express app with router.use for query validation, enforcing api key presence, and filtering /search/movie and /search/person by title, overview, or name using includes.