PORT 3000

A Parody of: Year 3000 by Jonas Brothers

Dedicated to CodeSquad 2021 cohort and the struggles of learning web development 
Written in 2021

One day, when we came back from spring break 
We heard a funny name  
Logged on to Moodle to find out 
If that’s a made-up word 
Sat there with classmates and TFs 
What’s an NPM  
Time to buckle in for a ride 
Like nothing we’ve ever seen, yeah 

Say Hi to the PORT 3000 
Not much has changed, but we’re now learning back end  
And the homework-slash-course-project 
Is going live (Going live) 

They showed us the back end with demos  
And more languages       
JSON, and SQL, and Mongo (what’s a Mongoose) 
Node-mon or no-demon? 
Oh well, I liked the latter 
What’s with the CRUD acronym 
Is that the coder swear word of choice, huh 

Now we’re onto the PORT 3000 
Everything has changed, more abstract on the back end  
And the poor VS Code terminal 
Is on fire (onnnnn fire~) 

We took a trip to the PORT 3000
Fancy errors all be flashin’ 
Everybody’s server takes turn crashin’ 
Overwhelming all our TFs  
We took a trip to the PORT 3000 
But we got no pages renderin’ 
Some connections stuck in ether
(Stuck in ether, stuck in ether) 
They promised it would be fun 
I guess tragedies are fun to watch, right?  

We’ve been to the PORT 3000 
Everything has changed, slowly we got it workin’ 
And our personal-web-projects 
Have gone live (going live) 

What can you find on the PORT 3000 (Yeah, you’ve been)  
Foraging notes, natural hair stylists 
Reminders to phone all your close friends  
And the moms (all the moms) 

What can you do on the PORT 3000 
Send a bouquet or run some test prep
Get a well matched mental counselor 
Build your beats (all the beats) 

Cause we’ve lived through the PORT 3000 
Everything is now running on Heroku 
And our upcoming learning chapter 
Is looking fine 
Looking fine