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Let's keep moving
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and explore Node.js some more.
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And so let's now actually start a new JavaScript file.
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So right in the root folder, and I'm calling it index.js,
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let's just decrease the terminal here a little bit.
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Okay, so let's now write our very first Node code
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here inside a file and all I'm gonna do
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is to create a hello variable.
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(typing)
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And then putting the classic "Hello world" in there.
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So "Hello world" has been traditionally used
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when starting a new programming language
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and that's kind of what we're doing here.
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Okay, and now I'm logging to the console
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this hello variable, so very very very simple stuff.
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Give it a save and let's actually now run this file.
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So, in normal JavaScript in a browser,
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we would now include this JavaScript file
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into some HTML file and then open up
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that HTML file in a browser, right?
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But here with Node, we don't need to do anything like that.
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All we do is to use our Node command.
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But now, we're not gonna hit 'Enter' right away,
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because that would take us back to the REPL
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but instead we want to run this file.
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And so all we have to do is to write Node
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and then the name of the file, so index.js,
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hit 'Enter' and indeed, here we have our log "Hello world."
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So congratulations, you just ran
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your very first Node script.
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Now, that isn't really all that useful, is it?
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So let's do something a bit more advanced.
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And remember how I said right in the first lecture
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that with Node.js, we can do all kinds of amazing things
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that we cannot do with JavaScript in the browser
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like for example reading files from the file system, right?
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Now in order to do that, we need to use a Node module.
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So Node.js is really built around this concept of modules
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where all kinds of additional functionality
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are stored in a module.
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And in the case for reading files,
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that is inside the FS module.
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So how do we open up these modules,
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or how can we actually use them?
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Well, we do require them into our code and then store
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the result of the requiring function in a variable.
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So that sounds a bit complicated, so let's simply do it.
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So we will call FS to the result
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(typing)
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of requiring the FS module.
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And FS here stands for file system.
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So by using this module here, we will get access
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to functions for reading data and writing data
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right to the file system.
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So again, calling this function here with this built-in
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FS module name will then return an object
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in which there are lots of functions that we can use.
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And restore that object right into the FS variable
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that we can then later use.
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We are going to use it in the next video,
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but for now I want to quickly take a look
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at the Node documentation with you,
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so that in case you need some other module
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for yourself later, you always know where
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to look up some information about it.
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Okay, so the Node documentations are something really,
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really important for every Node developer to know about.
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So, what we do is to go to nodejs.org
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and then hit the documentations tab here
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and then select the Node version that you're using
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here on the left side.
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So I am using version 10, and so
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that's the one I'm choosing here.
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And so that is the documentation.
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Here on the left side, you have all kinds
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of different modules.
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For example, you have the REPL as well,
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so the REPL is what we used in the last lecture
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and if you need to know a bit more about it,
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well you can come down here and read
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whatever you need to know.
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For example, the exit that I talked about
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is documented here and well, all kinds of stuff.
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Okay, you can also actually use the REPL
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inside your code, which doesn't make much sense
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but is actually possible.
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So again all the modules are listed here on the left side
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and the one that we just implemented is the file system.
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Okay, and so down here you have all this different stuff
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that for now will not make much sense to you, okay,
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but that's no problem at all.
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That's why we have this whole course ahead of us.
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For now just know that in case you need anything,
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it is always available in the documentation for you.
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So for example, in the next video,
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we will read a file from the disk to our code.
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And we're gonna do that using the read file sync.
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And so here you have all the information
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about that specific function.
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Okay, and so in the next video,
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that is actually what we're gonna do.
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And in this one, you learned how to write
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your own very first Node code inside
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of a new JavaScript file, and then run
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that file in the terminal.
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Then we also required the file system module
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and so, again, in the next video,
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we will finally use it and import some files.
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See you then.
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