Preface
The purpose of this book is to help .NET or Java developers make the leap to Node.js. You may have some web development experience, and perhaps you've written some browser-based JavaScript in the past. It might not be obvious why anyone would want to take JavaScript out of the browser and use it for server-side development. However, this is exactly what Node.js does. What's more, Node.js has been around for long enough now to have matured as a platform, and has sustained its impressive growth in popularity well beyond any period that could be attributed to initial hype over a new technology.
The first objective of this book then is to explain why Node.js is a compelling technology that's worth learning more about. The first few chapters ...
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