What are the Benefits of Node.js?
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Join For FreeRyan Dahl, and other developers, at Joyent created Node.js. Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment for server-side and networking applications. It brings event-driven programming to web servers enabling development of fast web servers in Javascript.
In an event-driven application, there is a main loop that listens for events, and then triggers a callback function when one of those events is detected. Node.js also provides a non-blocking I/O API that optimizes an application's throughput and scalability. In a non-blocking language, commands execute in parallel, and use callbacks to signal completion. In a blocking language, commands execute only after the previous command has completed.
Node.js uses the Google V8 JavaScript engine to execute code, and a large percentage of the basic modules are written in JavaScript. Node.js contains a built-in library to allow applications to act as a Web server without software such as Apache HTTP Server or IIS. NPM is the pre-installed package manager for the Node.js server platform. It is used to install Node.js programs from the npm registry. The package manager allows publishing and sharing of open-source Node.js libraries by the community, and simplifies installation, updating and un-installation of libraries.
What are some of the Benefits of Node.js?
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