Goal: Create a private REST server at home to serve up some media files, as well as performing operations on my computer when requested by a new peronal assistant mobile app.
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How to build a REST API with Node js & Express
Overall, the Node.js & Express experience has been smoother and definitely more refined. Things work just as it advertised. I do miss the native async / await support in Deno, but a quick util.promisify() converted the callback functions into Promise without problem. For the fs module, there is already a promisified module called fs.promises which async / await calls quite painless.