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The COVID-19 lockdown has many of us stuck at home, perhaps hoping that mere cabin fever is the worst kind of fever we’ll experience. Many of us are consuming more video content than ever before. While exercise is especially important right now, sometimes, there’s nostalgia for the luxury of a good, old-fashioned remote control when the laptop is beyond easy reach.

That’s where this project comes in: The opportunity to transform any smartphone—even an old one that’s otherwise useless for lack of updates—into a handy remote for the next Netflix/YouTube/Amazon Prime Video/etc. binge-watch. It’s also a Node.js back-end tutorial: a chance to learn the basics of back-end JavaScript using the Express framework and the Pug (formerly Jade) template engine.

If that sounds daunting, the complete Node.js project will be presented at the end; readers need only learn as much as they’re interested in learning, and there will be a fair

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