How to Create Node.js Web Server?. The Complete Node.js Developer Course 2023 [Videos].

Node.js is a platform built on Chromes JavaScript runtime for easily building fast and scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices

In this tutorial, well be building a RESTful CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) API with Node.js, Express and MongoDB. Well use Mongoose for interacting with the MongoDB instance.

Express is one of the most popular web frameworks for node.js. It is built on top of node.js http module, and adds support for routing, middleware, view system etc. It is very simple and minimal, unlike other frameworks that try do way to much, thereby reducing the flexibility for developers to have their own design choices.

Mongoose is an ODM (Object Document Mapping) tool for Node.js and MongoDB. It helps you convert the objects in your code to documents in the database and vice versa.

Before proceeding to the next section, Please install MongoDB in your machine if you have not done already. Checkout the official MogngoDB installation manual for any help with the installation.