Most languages aren't of the paradigm: of just writing self-contained code. Independent modules of code, called packages, are widely used in software engineering and development. To think of this in another way, even a fresh web server doesn't have software on it to serve a site out of the box. You have to install a package of software, such as Apache or nginx, to even get to the "Hello World!" step of a website. Node.js is no different. It has a number of tools to make the process of getting these packages simpler, though. Let's take a look from the ground up at a basic "Hello World!" example of a server using Node.js. We'll be discussing these concepts in more detail later, so, for now, let's just go through the basic setup.
Node.js
Of course, the first thing we need is access to the language itself. There are a few methods by which you can get Node.js on your machine, including package managers, but the most straightforward...
