Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform using an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, allowing users to build fast and scalable transaction-intensive applications running in real time. It plays a significant role in the software development world and liberates JavaScript from the web browser. With Node.js, we can reuse our JavaScript skills for general software development on a large range of systems.
It runs atop the ultra-fast JavaScript engine at the heart of Google's Chrome browser, V8, and adds a fast and robust library of asynchronous network I/O modules.
The primary focus of Node.js is developing high performance, highly scalable web applications, and it also sees a widespread use in other areas. Electron, the Node.js-based ...
