From the course: Learning Koa
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What is Koa?
- [Instructor] Koa is a framework to build web servers for your applications. It is an improved version of Express which is the popular option, but also was built from members of the Express team. Therefore, they took the best of Express, and improved it with added tools and improved syntax. It uses similar concepts such as request and response, and does it all asynchronously. So if you use and liked Express, you'll love working with Koa. It also uses the ES6 syntax, therefore if you're not familiar with ES6, you might get lost a little bit while we explore the framework. As a requirement if you want to use Koa, you need to be at least on Node Seven and above. If that's not the case, please update your Node version and you can do so by going to nodejs.org and installing the latest version, or if you use nvm, do nvm use 10.14.1, or whichever is the latest version. So once you get to the website here, what you do is click on this version and it will download the latest version, or if…
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