Where to Go Next

Seventy-two lessons ago this was a counter button. Now you can build a streaming, server-rendered, form-handling, API-serving Marko app from an empty folder. What this tutorial deliberately left for your next session:

Your own project. npm init marko scaffolds one. --dir picks where it lands, --template pulls a starter from marko-js/examples, and --installer overrides the package manager it reaches for. You never had to type it here — the project on the left was already running when you arrived.

Deployment. marko-run build produces a Node server by default; adapters retarget the same app at other platforms — static hosting, serverless, edge runtimes. See @marko/run’s adapters list.

Embedding. Your routes can join an existing server instead of owning one: Run.fetch handles a request against your router; Run.match + Run.invoke split that into route lookup and execution for finer control. The @marko/run README’s Runtime section has the recipes.

TypeScript. Marko templates take TS natively, marko-run generates route types, and typed URLs can verify every href in your app points at a real route. The docs’ TypeScript pages cover setup.

The explanations. You’ve used the machine; these tell you why it’s shaped this way — the docs’ explanation section: Why Is Marko Fast · Targeted Compilation (one template, different code per platform) · Fine-Grained Bundling (why your static pages shipped ~zero JS) · Streaming (part three’s deep background) · Separation of Concerns (the single-file philosophy, argued properly) · Optimizing Performance.

And the community — markojs.com, the Discord, and the GitHub org, where the people who built all this answer questions with alarming speed.

No exercise this time — just confetti. The page on the right is your graduation: read its source and you’ll find nothing you don’t know. A <for> over pieces, dynamic style attributes, a CSS animation restarted by flipping its name, a <let> counting your encores. The tree is unlocked; it’s your app now. Break something on purpose and fix it — that’s the whole skill.