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Marcio Mello
7,861 PointsWeb Server x Application Server with Nodejs and Express
Hello all,
I am very new in the web programming scenario and have a lot of questions.
I started learning with Front-End development where we learn to create simple static web pages. When working with these, we just have to upload out files to a HOST plataform and forward our domain address to it. Our HOST server will perform the HTTP request and response for us. (Did I get this right?)
Now, learning NODEJS and EXPRESS in order to make more elaborated apps, I learned that NODEJS/EXPRESS also provides a WEB SERVER to deal with HTTP req/res. In this case, we are ditching the HOST SERVER out? Now I have to personaly program how my website will serve STATIC files also?
Before beggining all this I was under the impression that NODEJS would only deal with the "APP LOGIC" as an "Application Server" and let the STATIC FILES feed with the HOST SERVER. Was I wrong?
Question 2: If I let the dynamic template to be performed in the front end with React/Angular, do I need to use Template middleware on the backend / web server? In my head, I was planning to use nodejs just to gather information from other APIs and package it in JSON format, serving the browser with this data and letting my FRONT END framework render the webpage.
Could someone help me create this mental model in my head?