17.8 Summary
In this chapter, we gave you a brief introduction to Node.js, a runtime environment and platform for JavaScript that has significantly contributed to the renewed success of JavaScript in recent years. If you want to delve deeper into Node.js, we can point you to one more book on the subject, also published by Rheinwerk Publishing: Node.js: The Comprehensive Guide by Sebastian Springer gives a comprehensive introduction to Node.js. I had the pleasure of providing my technical expert opinion to that book.
For now, remember the following points from this chapter:
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Node.js is a single-threaded server consisting of the following major components:
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An event loop that regularly processes new requests to a Node.js server and reacts ...
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