Author: Awais Farooq
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Platform architecture
Node.js enables development of fast web servers in JavaScript using event-driven programming.[17] Developers can create scalable servers without using threading by using a simplified model that uses callbacks to signal the completion of a task.[17][page needed] Node.js connects the ease of a scripting language (JavaScript) with the power of Unix network programming.[17] Node.js was built on top of Google’s V8 JavaScript engine since…
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What is Node.js?
Node.js is Server-side scripting which is used to build scalable programs. It is a web application framework built on Google Chrome’s JavaScript Engine. It runs within the Node.js runtime on Mac OS, Windows, and Linux with no changes. This runtime facilitates you to execute a JavaScript code on any machine outside a browser.