Is node js required for laravel?

It depends . If your compiling assets on the server or if you are compiling them locally and then pushing to the server. If you are compiling them on the server then you would need node/npm/yarn on it.

A Node. js 12 server is required to run the web version of the Flutter weather app as well as the back-end weather API .23 Eki 2019

In this tutorial, I will show you how to set up both a Node. js server and a Flutter app that interacts with it. The server code will run on your local machine and the Flutter app will run in the Android emulator or iOS simulator .