Installing Node.js and Running Your First Node.js Application

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A cycle of developing many projects is quite interesting. Summarized in 3 steps: See something complex -> Simplify it -> Add features until it becomes complex again... -> Back to a new loop.

Why is that? Let me give you 2 examples to illustrate.

Markdown was created with the aim of producing a plain text format that is "easy to write, easy to read, and easy to convert into something like HTML." At that time, no one had the patience to sit and write while also adding formatting for how the text displayed on the web. Yet now, people are "stuffing" or creating variations based on markdown to add so many new formats that… they can’t even remember all the syntax.

React is also an example. Since the time of PHP, there has been a desire to create something that clearly separates the user interface from the core logic processing of applications into two distinct parts for better readability and writing. The result is that UI/UX libraries have developed very robustly, providing excellent user interaction, while the application logic resides on a separate server. The duo of Front-end and Back-end emerged from this, with the indispensable REST API waiter. Yet now, React doesn’t look much different from PHP, leading to Vue, Svelte... all converging back to a single point.

However, the loop is not bad; on the contrary, this loop is more about evolution than "regression." Sometimes, it creates something good from something old, and people rely on that goodness to continue the loop. In other words, it’s about distilling the essence little by little 😁

Alongside the official projects, I occasionally see "side" projects aimed at optimizing or improving the language in some aspects. For example, nature-lang/nature is a project focused on enhancing Go, introducing some changes to make using Go more user-friendly.

Looking back, it resembles JavaScript quite a bit 😆