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3. Introduction to Node

Jörg Krause

(1)Berlin, Germany

Node.js is an Open Source Platform which is used for the server page execution of JavaScript. The core of Node.js forms the in C/C++ written and therefore fast JavaScript implementation V8, which compiles the JavaScript code before the execution in native machine code.

Besides that, Node.js covers integrated modules , e.g., the HTTP module, in order to host a web server. Further modules can be installed with the ‘every day used’ npm package manager.

The asynchronous architecture of JavaScript makes a parallel processing of, for example, Client connections or database accesses. ...

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