CHAPTER 5
Using MongoDB with Node.js
A traditional scripting language-based web application is built on the client/server model requiring a client scripting language such as JavaScript and a server scripting language such as PHP and making use of a web server. Node.js is different in that it is server side scripting built on V8 JavaScript Engine. V8 is Google’s open source JavaScript engine used in Google Chrome. Node.js is based on the event-driven model and for developing fast, scalable, data-intensive, real-time, network applications. In this chapter we shall discuss accessing MongoDB with Node.js (or just Node) and making data modifications ...
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