#QUICK NODE CLONE HOW TO#

This tutorial assumes some basic Javascript knowledge. Once the backend is completed, you can complete any one of our frontend courses to create a client for the backend you've built.

#QUICK NODE CLONE HOW TO#

Note that this course only goes over how to build the backend in Node.js. Check out the live demo of Conduit to get an idea of the functionality of what we're about to build. We will be building a backend that will provide the functionality for our Medium clone called Conduit.

To do this, we'll set up Express for server logic and will be using MongoDB for the database (which is a popular choice in the Node community, as MongoDB stores data in the JSON format). This tutorial will teach you how to use Node as an API. This is a typical requirement for highly trafficked API endpoints, so building backend applications with Node can make scaling certain types of applications substantially easier. Further, Node is an asynchronous event-driven runtime which means it provides excellent performance for applications that require lots of small tasks done in parallel (i.e.

This is one of the key reasons many people use Node: you can learn one language, Javascript, and then use it to build every part of your full stack applications. In recent years, Javascript has become one of the most popular programming languages used by developers due to the global prevalence of internet access, mobile devices, increased computational capacity (thanks to Moore's Law), and the fact that Javascript is the only language that will run in a web browser.īut what if you could also write backend Javascript applications? That way you could master one language instead of trying to juggle multiple syntax differences in your head during day to day development.

Quick node clone