How to manage a Node server?

Question

Node.js

I started learning Node a couple of days ago.
All articles write only about how to create a simple application on node. But I would like to understand how to configure the server by analogy with htaccess for Apache.
Well, for example, I want to deny access to a certain directory or file.
Management of caching, compression. To give a file in a certain way in accordance with its type
Or is it done at the routing stage?

Answer 1

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/h...

deny access

nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_access_module.html

Cache management, compression

nginx.org/en/docs