I am trying to set up a development environment for node.js. I assumed at

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I am trying to set up a development environment for node.js. I assumed at

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I am trying to set up a development environment for node.js. I assumed at first that it requires something similar to the traditional, “localhost” server approach. But I found myself at a loss. I managed to start a node.js hello world app from the terminal. Which doesn’t looked like a big deal – having to start an app from the console isn’t that hard. But, after some tweaking, I found out that the changes aren’t shown in the browser immediately – you need to “node [appName here]” it again to run.

So, my question is:
Is there a software or a tutorial on how to create a more “traditional” development server on your local machine? Along with port listening setup, various configurations, root directories etc (things that are regular in stacks like XAMMP, BitNami or even the prepackaged Ubuntu LAMP). Since I’m new at node.js, I can’t really be sure I’m even searching for the right things on google.

Thanks.