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Programming Web Applications with Node, Express and Pug
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Programming Web Applications with Node, Express and Pug

by Jörg Krause
December 2016
Beginner to intermediate
222 pages
5h 32m
English
Apress
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© Jörg Krause 2017

Jörg Krause, Programming Web Applications with Node, Express and Pug , 10.1007/978-1-4842-2511-0_3

3. Introduction to Node

Jörg Krause1 

(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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