Day 1 — “Why I’m Building My Own HTTP Server from Scratch”

Most backend devs use Express or Fastify.
I decided to build my own HTTP server — from scratch, using raw Node.js.

No frameworks. No shortcuts.
Just sockets, buffers, and my brain.

Why? Because I want to understand how servers really work under the hood.

In the next few days, I’ll share how I’m building this:

• A blazing-fast router using Trie
• Streaming request body parser
• JWT auth
• Custom middleware engine
• Reverse proxy

Let’s see how far I can take this.