Node.js

Let’s gain a better understanding of the nature of Node.js and it’s building blocks.

Node.js is a popular, cross-platform, and open-source JavaScript runtime environment used to create server-side applications. It’s supposed to be used outside the browser context, so it doesn’t support the browser-specific JavaScript APIs, but it adds more support for more traditional operating system APIs, like file system APIs. Node.js is JavaScript code that uses an event loop.

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