Node.js
The release of Node.js in 2009 is possibly the single most important moment in JavaScript's history, though it would not have been possible without the release of the Chrome browser and Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine in the previous year.
Those readers who remember the launch of Chrome also recognize why Chrome dominated the browser wars: Chrome was fast, it was minimalist, it was modern, it was easy to develop for, and JavaScript itself ran much faster on Chrome than on other browsers.
Behind Chrome is the open source Chromium project, which in turn developed the V8 JavaScript engine. The innovation that V8 brought to the JavaScript world was its new execution model: instead of interpreting JavaScript in real time, V8 contains a JIT ...
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