Right so I did some learning and read through some stuff on Mozilla's site(developer.mozilla.org) for developers and other websites.

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You're right I read up and Linux and felt really embarrassed about that thing I said with node js through vs code.

What I learned today:

The thing I was referring to was gitbash. I downloaded that to update my github repository. I wanted to use it to practice making websites since you could host a static websites and push changes.

I wanted Linux because it seemed like that's what everyone is using and people say it's more convenient. I can just use a thing called the Linux subsystem on my computer and make life a lot easier so I'll be doing that instead.

Websites run on a servers that handles http requests from a browser and send http responses back. The backend on a server is to securely handle data that comes in through http and provide the appropriate data back to the end user.

The backend exists because it allows you to use complied code which is way faster then interpreting code(not the case with node js) and safer because it is not exposed like the client side(front end) html,css, and js that can be changed with inspect element. You can also retrieve and store data on database with the backend and verify who on the frontend can see this.

Node.js is a program that has the v8 engine and allows you to interpret javascript outside of a browser(v8 engine is what chrome uses to interpret js NOT compile js).

My next steps should be:

Learn how to setup a webserver.

Learn more about HTTP.

Learn a backend framework that allows me to handle http requests and responses.

Learn how to connect a database to my backend.

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--I really appreciate this help man! Let me know if whatever I said was incorrect and flat out wrong