Chapter 1. Getting started
This chapter covers
- Why Node?
- Node’s main features
- Building a Node application
Node has quickly become established as a viable and indeed efficient web development platform. Before Node, not only was JavaScript on the server a novelty, but non-blocking I/O was something that required special libraries for other scripting languages. With Node, this has all changed.
The combination of non-blocking I/O and JavaScript is immensely powerful: we can handle reading and writing files, network sockets, and more, all asynchronously in the same process, with the natural and expressive features of JavaScript callbacks.
This book is geared toward intermediate Node developers, so this chapter is a quick refresher. If you ...
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