Lesson: Introduction to Express

Lesson overview

Introduce Express and related concepts that will carry learners through the course.

Lesson outline

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• Make a case for we need Express e.g. writing vanilla Node servers verbose, express popular, express minimalistic
• Go over the request -> response journey in Express, discuss middlewares
• Code example that sets up a simple express project and complements all the concepts above

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• Lesson conforms to the outline above (unless outline has been modified).
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