Introduction
Welcome to Learning Node.js. Node.js is an exciting new platform for writing network and web applications that has created a lot of buzz over the past couple of years and rapidly gathered a sizeable following in the developer community. In this book, I teach you more about it, why it is special, and get you up and writing Node.js programs in short order. You’ll soon find that people are rather flexible with the name of Node.js and will refer to it frequently as just Node or even “node.” I certainly do a lot of that in this book as well.
Why Node.js?
Node.js has arisen for a couple of primary reasons, which I explain next.
The Web
In the past, writing web applications was a pretty standard process. You have one or more servers ...
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