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Node.js in Action
book

Node.js in Action

by TJ Holowaychuk, Nathan Rajlich, Mike Cantelon, Marc Harter
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
416 pages
13h 2m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 1. Welcome to Node.js

This chapter covers

  • What Node.js is
  • JavaScript on the server
  • The asynchronous and evented nature of Node
  • Types of applications Node is designed for
  • Sample Node programs

So what is Node.js? It’s likely you’ve heard the term. Maybe you already use Node. Maybe you’re curious about it. At this point in time, Node is very popular and young (it debuted in 2009). It’s the second-most-watched project on GitHub (https://github.com/joyent/node), it has quite a following in its Google group (http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs) and IRC channel (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=node.js), and it has more than 15,000 community modules published in NPM, the package manager (http://npmjs.org). All this to say,

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