hypertext transfer protocol

to expose the functionality of our code to anyone else over the internet, we need an http server, and to create an http server we need express - it is an optimised http server written by devs

HTTP servers are based on REQUEST RESPONSE MODEL

there are other ways to communicate from machine to machine, using web rtc and web sockets

Difference between domain name and ip address

To create your own website

• you need to first buy a server (on AWS) eg: 223.24.15.178 : 443
• then a domain name eg: sahil.com then point to your server

Ports

Methods

Responses