Building a Production MCP Server in TypeScript: 5 Gotchas the Tutorials Skip
The Model Context Protocol went from ~2M monthly SDK downloads at launch in November 2024 to 97M/month by March 2026. The public registry grew from 1,200 servers in Q1 2025 to 9,400+ by April. It's now the de facto standard for connecting LLMs to external tools, files, and APIs. The tutorials haven'





