November 2017
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Node.js (Node) is server-side JavaScript. To people who are used to seeing JavaScript running in a browser, this might seem a little odd. But when you get right down to it, JavaScript is just a language. There is nothing inherent in the language specification to suggest that it couldn’t be used in a web server.
What makes Node something worth looking at is that it’s light-weight and performs very well. The performance is the result of, among other things, some design decisions that distinguish it from other web servers. Probably the biggest choice ...
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