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Kerri and Ash go down a GitHub Copilot rabbit hole, but not for coding apps like you might expect!

Instead, they are exploring the possibilities of authoring technical tutorials for developers where 95% of the writing is done by AI/ML.

In this episode, you'll get to listen to *thrilling* audio content wherein Ash hits the tab button in VS Code until he's got a Node.js and Express tutorial written almost entirely by GitHub Copilot.

What does it all mean?! Kerri and Ash want to know!

• Can GitHub Copilot do QA for an article that it mostly wrote on its own?
• Could Copilot please just write a sample app, author the tutorial, then QA everything already thx?
• Can we simply tab our way into writing bespoke tutorials for technologies we don't even know yet with GitHub Copilot?
• Will humans still at least get to make the memes?

See below for the text of the article GitHub Copilot created (in proper Markdown!) based on a seed of 8\u201310 words provided by a soon-to-be-obsolete human, including the inexplicable link in the "Next steps" section to the Photoshop UXP API documentation.

Relax and enjoy this podcast, humans; the AIs can do the work now.

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# Making a server with Node.js and Express

In this tutorial, we will make a simple server with Node.js and Express. We will also use the `express-generator` package to generate the project.

## Prerequisites

- Node.js

- npm

- Express

## Building the project

First, we will create a new project using the `express-generator` package. This package will generate a new project for us, and we can use it to create a new project.

```bash

$ npm install express-generator -g

$ express myapp

$ cd myapp

$ npm install

```

Now, we can run the project using the `npm start` command.

```bash

$ npm start

```

This will start the server on port 3000. We can now visit the server at `http://localhost:3000`.

## Adding a route

Now, we will add a new route to the server. We will add a new route to the `routes/index.js` file.

```js

router.get("/hello", function (req, res, next) {

res.send("Hello World!");

});

```

Now, we can visit the route at `http://localhost:3000/hello`.

## Conclusion

In this tutorial, we learned how to make a simple server with Node.js and Express. We also learned how to use the `express-generator` package to generate a new project.

## Next steps

- [Making a server with Node.js and Express](https://developer.adobe.com/photoshop/uxp/2022/guides/getting-started/making-a-server-with-nodejs-and-express/)

## Resources

- [Node.js](https://nodejs.org/en/)

- [npm](https://www.npmjs.com/)

- [Express](https://expressjs.com/)

- [express-generator](https://www.npmjs.com/package/express-generator)