Learning Node.js Development

What is Node?

Node came about when the original developers took JavaScript, something you could usually only run inside the browser, and they let it run on your machine as a standalone process. This means that we could create applications using JavaScript outside the context of the browser.

Now, JavaScript previously had a limited feature set. When I used it in the browser, I could do things such as update the URL and remove the Node logo, adding click events or anything else, but I couldn't really do much more.

With Node, we now have a feature set that looks much more similar to other languages, such as Java, Python, or PHP. Some of these are as follows:

• We can write Node applications using the JavaScript syntax
• You can manipulate your ...