Build an HTTP Server in Node.js (No Express) | Node.js Course #5

Build an HTTP Server in Node.js (No Express) – Lecture 5 of the Node.js & Express Full Course, a free Node.js and Express.js tutorial for beginners. Learn Node.js http module, Node.js HTTP server, create server Node.js with hands-on code examples for backend JavaScript development. Lecture 5 builds a small JSON API using only Node's built-in http module: status codes, headers, manual routing, query strings with URL, reading request bodies, and error handling. You'll see exactly which problems Express solves. What you'll learn • How HTTP requests and responses work • http.createServer, status codes, and headers • Manual routing with method + URL • Parsing query strings with URL • Reading and parsing a JSON request body Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:51 HTTP basics 02:11 Server, status and JSON 03:23 Manual routing and query strings 04:54 Reading a JSON body 06:14 What Express gives us 07:04 Recap 07:41 Next: first Express app Links Altered or synthetic content: The presenter visuals and narration in this video are AI-generated/AI-assisted from the instructor's own photo and an original teaching script. All code, diagrams and teaching content are original. #NodeJS #ExpressJS #NodeJsHttpModule