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Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine that is used for building fast and scalable server-side and networking applications. It uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient for data-intensive real-time applications. Key features include being asynchronous and event-driven, very fast performance, and high scalability with a single-threaded model. Popular companies that use Node.js include eBay, Microsoft, and Yahoo. It is well-suited for I/O bound applications, data streaming, real-time applications, and APIs.

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Node.js Guide for Developers

Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine that is used for building fast and scalable server-side and networking applications. It uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient for data-intensive real-time applications. Key features include being asynchronous and event-driven, very fast performance, and high scalability with a single-threaded model. Popular companies that use Node.js include eBay, Microsoft, and Yahoo. It is well-suited for I/O bound applications, data streaming, real-time applications, and APIs.

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Node.

js - Introduction

What is Node.js?
Node.js is a server-side platform built on Google
Chrome's JavaScript Engine (V8 Engine). Node.js
was developed by Ryan Dahl in 2009 and its latest
version is v0.10.36. The definition of Node.js as
supplied by its official documentation is as
follows −

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's


JavaScript runtime for easily building fast
and scalable network applications. Node.js
uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model
that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect
for data-intensive real-time applications that
run across distributed devices.

What is Node.js?
Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime
environment for developing server-side and
networking applications. Node.js applications are
written in JavaScript, and can be run within the
Node.js runtime on OS X, Microsoft Windows, and
Linux.

Node.js also provides a rich library of various


JavaScript modules which simplifies the
development of web applications using Node.js to a
great extent.

Node.js = Runtime Environment + JavaScript Library

Features of Node.js
Following are some of the important features that
make Node.js the first choice of software architects.

Asynchronous and Event Driven − All


APIs of Node.js library are asynchronous,
that is, non-blocking. It essentially means a
Node.js based server never waits for an
API to return data. The server moves to
the next API after calling it and a
notification mechanism of Events of
Node.js helps the server to get a response
from the previous API call.

Very Fast − Being built on Google


Chrome's V8 JavaScript Engine, Node.js
library is very fast in code execution.

Single Threaded but Highly Scalable −


Node.js uses a single threaded model with
event looping. Event mechanism helps the
server to respond in a non-blocking way
and makes the server highly scalable as
opposed to traditional servers which create
limited threads to handle requests. Node.js
uses a single threaded program and the
same program can provide service to a
much larger number of requests than
traditional servers like Apache HTTP
Server.

No Buffering − Node.js applications never


buffer any data. These applications simply
output the data in chunks.

License − Node.js is released under the


MIT license .

Who Uses Node.js?


Following is the link on github wiki containing an
exhaustive list of projects, application and
companies which are using Node.js. This list
includes eBay, General Electric, GoDaddy,
Microsoft, PayPal, Uber, Wikipins, Yahoo!, and
Yammer to name a few.

Projects, Applications, and Companies


Using Node
Concepts
The following diagram depicts some important parts
of Node.js which we will discuss in detail in the
subsequent chapters.

Concepts

Where to Use Node.js?


Following are the areas where Node.js is proving
itself as a perfect technology partner.
I/O bound Applications
Data Streaming Applications
Data Intensive Real-time Applications (DIRT)
JSON APIs based Applications
Single Page Applications

Where Not to Use Node.js?


It is not advisable to use Node.js for CPU intensive
applications.

I/O bound Applications


Data Streaming Applications

WhereData
toIntensive
Use Real-time
Node.js?
Applications (DIRT)
JSON APIs based Applications
Single Page Applications

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