Hi there,
Referrng to official documentation, you can build the hybrid server listener whenever you can deploy the code below
Someone in other community successully deployed some nodejs projects in Ubuntu Core OS 16, I assume you can create the listener in the OS
https://askubuntu.com/questions/966368/is-it-possible-to-install-node-js-and-npm-on-ubuntu-core
But it always better to use the full OS to avoid any problems in the future