Node.js
Node.js is a development framework that is based on Google’s V8 JavaScript engine and executes it.
You can write most—or maybe even all—of your server-side code in Node.js, including the webserver and the server-side scripts and any supporting web application functionality. The fact that the webserver and the supporting web application scripts are running together in the same server-side application allows for much tighter integration between the webserver and the scripts. Also, the webserver can run directly on the Node.js platform as a Node.js module, which means it’s much easier than using, say, Apache for wiring up new services or server-side scripts.
The following are just a few reasons Node.js is a great framework:
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