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HTTP servers are the backbone of the internet, and there's no reason you can't understand how they work from the ground up.
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Lane Wagner
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
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What will you learn?
Learn all about the basics of building web servers in TypeScript. We'll keep the stack lean and simple, using primarily Express.js. Once you've completed this course, you'll feel confident building your own web servers, whether you're serving static files or a full-on RESTful JSON API with authentication and authorization.
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Really bad time estimate. I needed 70 hours. So many hard-coding challenges, and everything is becom...
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United States
the best course on the website right now, hands down. Don't take it until you've done the other type...
Peter S
United States
Very Nice Course.
Si Thu San
Thailand
Reasonably complete journey across the fundamentals of a standard web server with a properly designe...
Luis Gil Gutiérrez de la Barreda
Mérida, Spain
I'm actually starting to feel like a Back-end developer now!
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Fitchburg,MA
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Zachary Springer
Portland, Oregon
This was great!
geolunalg
United States
From basic HTTP, to express felt like a superhero. I never knew TypeScript could be used like that. ...
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Afroditis 22, Nea Ionia
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