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title: NodeJS APIs Without Express
description: In this video we create 3 simple API endpoints in NodeJS without Express.js. We use the HTTP module from Node to serve plain text, HTML, and JSON. This is a simple, lightweight server.
date: 2019-09-22
tags: NodeJS, APIs, Express
source: https://brianchildress.co/blog/node-apis-without-express
---

# NodeJS APIs Without Express

In this video we create 3 simple API endpoints in NodeJS without Express.js. We use the HTTP module from Node to serve plain text, HTML, and JSON. This is a simple, lightweight server.