Writing a Web Server with Oak

We decided that we’ll be using Oak in this course. In this lesson, we’ll rewrite part of our web application so that we can use it instead of the HTTP module from the standard library.

Let’s open src/web/index.ts and start tackling it step by step.

Following Oak’s documentation, the only thing we’ll need to do is instantiate the Application object, define a middleware, and call the listen method. Let’s do it:

1. Add Oak’s import to the deps.ts file:

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