As JavaScript developers who may or may not have experience working with Node.js, a brief introduction to Node.js and its core ideology will help get everyone up to speed. Node.js, or simply Node, is a run-time environment that executes JavaScript outside a browser. In simpler terms, and as it relates to web developers, Node is a platform that allows developers to write JavaScript applications that can also act as servers.
JavaScript became popular for being a language used to manipulate the DOM (Document Object Model) on web pages. It was a language typically used for client-side scripting. Node, which was built on Chrome's open source v8 JavaScript engine, made it possible to run JavaScript both on the browser and the server. This was highly accepted, as developers could now develop applications with the same language on servers and web browsers.
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