Express.js: Create Your First Web Server

Your first lesson on creating web servers with Express.js

What is Express?

Express is a Node.js web application framework that is popularly used by thousands of companies to create their backend.

A few of them are shown in the image below.

From: Stackshare.io

What attracts me to Express?

1. Express makes server development simple. It makes your code clean because it does a great load of work under the hood. If you’re unsure about this, try building large servers with the ‘HTTP/ HTTPS’ package in Nodejs.
2. Express allows scalability. This is proven by the fact that multiple billion-dollar companies use it on their backend.
3. Express is easy to learn

Your First Server

Install Express via NPM

Install Express in your server directory with npm.

$npm install express

Importing & Using Express