Glossary term
What is Server?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Server" means: A program that waits for requests and answers them. It is taught in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs. Related terms include Client, Request and response, API and JSON. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Server?
A program that waits for requests and answers them.
Where is Server taught?
Server is defined in Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs.
Which lessons cover Server?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs, lesson 1.1: What a back end does
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs, lesson 1.2: Your first server
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs, lesson 1.3: Read what a request says
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs, lesson 2.2: Build a tiny router
Which terms are related to Server?
Next to Server in the course glossaries: Client, Request and response, API, JSON and Status code.
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Server?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at intermediate level:
- Node.js: Build the Back End and APIs: Basic JavaScript: variables, functions, objects, arrays, conditions and loops.