The simplest site on Node.js?

Question

Node.js

Good afternoon! I am learning JS, and I was pleasantly surprised that HelloWorld on the node does not look so complicated, unlike my native sharp with ASP. Previously, I had little experience in PHP, I usually had such a minimum as a database + include, but the language itself scared me away, but now it’s not about that. When I read articles about a node, everything quickly seems to take off right off the bat, express and other things are connected, with little explanation of why this is. And now I want to just create a site for myself with a simple database, showing pages received via $_GET['page'] as it would be in PHP, but I can not find anything on creating simple sites without a ton of dependencies on NPM packages.
I apologize for such a presentation of the question, I hope it is more or less clear.

Answer 1

So it will be the same hello world, only you send html instead of text.
Actually, the base server: https://nodejs.org/en/knowledge/HTTP/servers/how-t...
And http documentation: https://nodejs.org/api/http.html

I can't find anything about building simple sites without a ton of dependencies on NPM packages.

Because now you can’t go anywhere without them and you need to be able to work with popular libraries and frameworks.