Hi y'all, sorry if these are really basic questions, but I'm just starting out learning node. I've been developing software for a long time, and web sites / apps for a couple of years, but nothing too advanced yet, mostly in vanilla HTML/JS and a little PHP. I swear I am trying to keep an open mind on all of this but some of these ideas are really new / different for me.

1. Is Express really just for API development, or can I use it to create a basic web app as well? (I've read others saying this but I find this idea confusing -- e.g.: https://alternativeto.net/software/expressjs/ "Express is for building REST APIs (backend). Meteor is for building the full stack webapp")

2. Do you get used to the idea of incorporating other people's code into your node projects? (Because as an older developer, all this "just add this framework which has 122 dependencies of its own" seems like mania. How could you ever say a project built on hundreds of other projects [which all have their own dependencies too] could ever be said to be safe or secure? And won't changes in those projects break my project eventually?)

3. Is there no way to process a POSTed form with just the built-in Node functions when the form enctype is "multipart" -- without adding in Express or some other framework? (I've searched and searched and all the examples I found for doing this without Express assume the form's enctype is "x-www-form-urlencoded" but my form will be used to upload a file.)

Thanks for any advice / info!

Glengarry Glen Ross is a 1992 American drama film directed by James Foley and written by David Mamet, based on his 1984 Pulitzer Prize–winning play of the same name. The film depicts two days in the lives of four real estate salesmen, and their increasing desperation when the corporate office sends a motivational trainer to threaten them that all but the top two salesmen will be fired within one week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glengarry_Glen_Ross_(film)

NB: This edited version has the sex scenes removed. Closest to the full version I could find on YT though.

The Room is a 2003 American independent romantic drama film written, directed, and produced by Tommy Wiseau, who also stars in the film alongside Juliette Danielle and Greg Sestero. Set in San Francisco, the film is centered around a melodramatic love triangle between amiable banker Johnny (Wiseau), his deceptive fiancée Lisa (Danielle), and his conflicted best friend Mark (Sestero). The work was reportedly intended to be semi-autobiographical in nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room

Japanese with English subtitles

Tampopo (タンポポ, Tanpopo, literally “dandelion”) is a 1985 Japanese comedy film written and directed by Juzo Itami, and starring Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kōji Yakusho, and Ken Watanabe. The publicity for the film calls it the first “ramen Western”, a play on the term spaghetti Western.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampopo