What is Node.JS? Using JavaScript without the Browser
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Discussion of the blog article What is Node.JS? Using JavaScript without the Browser.
Node.js took the V8 engine out of Chrome and ran it on a server. That sounds like a small change. What it actually did was flip how developers think about I/O — and spawn an ecosystem of two million packages.
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