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Learning Node.js Development
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Learning Node.js Development

by Andrew Mead
January 2018
Beginner
658 pages
13h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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Differences between JavaScript coding using Node and in the browser

Inside the browser, you've probably used window if you've done any JavaScript development:

Window is the global object, it stores basically everything you have access to. In the following screenshot, you can see things such as array, we have all sorts of CSS manipulation and Google Analytics keywords; essentially every variable you create lives inside Window:

We have something similar inside Node called global, as shown here:

It's not called window because there is no browser ...

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