We don't typically think of JavaScript existing server-side, as the majority of its history has only been client-side in a browser. However, at the end of the day, JavaScript is a language—and languages can be agnostic to their application (to an extent). While it was possible to use JavaScript server-side since its beginning with a few different tools, the introduction of Node.js brought using JavaScript on the server-side into the mainstream. There are more similarities between Python and JavaScript here than on the frontend, but there are still significant differences between how each technology is used in practice. Let's take a look at Node.js and how we can leverage its power on the server-side—and why we would want to!
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Why use JavaScript on the server-side...
