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This repository is for me to practice writing code from the book Web Development with Node & Express from Ethan Brown (O'Reilly)

Personal notes:

• I installed a more recent version of Node on my machine. This version calls the executable 'nodejs' instead of 'node' (which would have been installed via nodejs-legacy). The book uses the 'node' executable.
• For the meadowlark.js app, I will cp off the code from each iterative step, so that I can see the progression. However I will not copy off each iteration of the other code (like Handlebars, or CSS). The book's GitHub repo gives each chapter its own tag to separate iterations of the built website, but I'm fine cutting some corners.
• It may seem silly to type these code examples in, when I could just copy the files from the O'Reilly site, but I find it helps me understand it better when I type in each line at a time.

Lessons I skipped writing code for:

• Ch 2 - Serving Static Resources
• Ch 3 - Dynamic Content in Views (did add 'fortune' code in Ch 4 - Node Modules though)

Original code samples from the book can be found at https://github.com/EthanRBrown/web-development-with-node-and-express