Introduction to Node.js

Introdution

Node.js is an open-source, cross platform runtime environment for developing server-side web applications. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript and can be run within the Node.js runtime on Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux and various other operating systems. Node.js is built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

What is V8?

V8 is Google's open source high-performance JavaScript engine written in C++. It is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser. V8 can run standalone or can be embedded into any C++ application.

More about Node.js

Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem, npm is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world.

You can download the latest Node.js version at https://nodejs.org/en/download/