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By now, we have a basic understanding

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of NodeJS and Express,

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and we are able to build some dummy websites with that,

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but the pages we built up to this point aren't too useful.

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And one of the main problems is that up to this point,

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we're doing everything in our JavaScript code

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and that includes the generation of our response

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HTML content which in turn means

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that it's quite simple content,

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not really a well-structured page, leave alone any styles,

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because we don't really wanna write all of that

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in just JavaScript.

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Well, that's where this section comes in now.

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Now we're going to glue together a couple of pieces

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that will in the end lead to far more realistic

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and useful websites that we build with NodeJS and Express.

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Because in this course section,

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we are going to explore how NodeJS with Express.js

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is able to work together with HTML files

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and how we can work with HTML files and CSS and JavaScript,

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browser side JavaScript, as we did it

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in all the sections up to these backend sections,

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and how we can in addition also make that HTML content

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a bit more dynamic,

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so how we can get the best of both worlds.

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And for this, in this course section,

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we are going to dive into how we can send HTML files

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as responses in our Express.js application,

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instead of just sending text responses

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that may include HTML as we did it up to this point,

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and we are going to explore

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how we can serve static files in general

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and what exactly static files are

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before we then are going to make a major step forward

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by also diving into dynamic files

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and how we can work with so-called templates

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to generate dynamic HTML content

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that can differ for different users

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and different points of time on the server

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with our Node Express code.

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So plenty of content to cover, let's dive right in.