Summary

In this hour, you learned about HTTP and how to interact with it using Node.js. You learned how to create a simple web server and how to send headers back to the client. You then extended your simple web server to create a redirect and then made it respond to more than one type of request. Finally, you created an HTTP client to check the status of a web server.

This hour showcased the low-level features of Node.js for using HTTP. In the next hour, you are introduced to Express, Which is a web framework for Node.js that makes creating HTTP servers more user friendly.