The course provides knowledge of concepts, processes and tools of conventions and solutions for setting up a development environment for building server-based JavaScript solutions and deploying those servers on a local computer. Candidates will learn to use the Node runtime and the associated Node Package Manager (NPM). Through NPM, they will explore the JavaScript ecosystem of tools and package management.

The focal point of these packages will be the use of external packages to build JavaScript servers. Candidates will be taught how to create, launch and maintain these servers locally on their own machines. These server solutions will encompass the concepts of routing, path variables, parameters and simple endpoints.

The Node runtime is a pivotal component of the JavaScript developer’s toolkit; it is used in many frameworks as part of the development process but is also used as a standalone production server. As projects grow in scope and complexity, they rely more on external packages, and NPM provides a central tool for managing these dependencies within a given project.

Using their prior knowledge and the topics covered in this course, candidates will be able to create server solutions to meet the needs of simple single-purpose applications.