April 2020
Intermediate to advanced
716 pages
18h 55m
English
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Node
Node was developed as a JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node made it possible to start using JavaScript on the server side to build a variety of tools and applications beyond previous use cases that were limited to being within a browser.
Node has an event-driven architecture capable of asynchronous, non-blocking I/O (short for Input/Output). Its unique non-blocking I/O model eliminates the waiting approach to serving requests. This allows you to build scalable and lightweight real-time web applications that can efficiently handle many requests.
Node's default package management system, the Node Package Manager or npm, comes bundled with the Node installation. npm gives you access to hundreds of ...