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Why Node.js? - React.js Tutorial
From the course: React: Creating and Hosting a Full-Stack Site
Why Node.js?
- [Instructor] So now that we've got our client side working nicely, it's time to start building the backend of our blog site. And to do this, we're going to use Node.js. Now, you've probably already heard about Node.js by now, and it's very important to us here because it allows us to write our backend in JavaScript instead of using PHP or Python or Java or some other language besides JavaScript. Right, it used to be that in order to be a full stack developer, you had to be fairly fluent in more than one programming language, but with Node.js, as you'll see, which has become an incredibly popular runtime since it was released, our entire web application can be written in JavaScript, which is great news for us JavaScript developers. Now, there are many different NPM libraries that can be used to write Node.js servers, and the one that we're going to use here in these videos is called Express. Now, Express is a great choice for us here because it's unopinionated, as you can see on this…