NodeJs

Node.js is a very powerful JavaScript-based framework/platform built on Google Chrome's JavaScript V8 Engine. It is used to develop I/O intensive web applications like video streaming sites, single-page applications, and other web applications. Node.js is open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world

●Developed by Ryan Dahl.

●Created with the aim of creating real-time websites with push capabilities (websockets).

●NodeJS is an open source, cross platform runtime environment for server-side and networking applications.

●Build on V8 engine, Chrome’s JavaScript engine.

●Uses event-driven, non-blocking I/O model which makes NodeJS lightweight and efficient.

●Ideal for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

●NodeJS comes with several JavaScript libraries that help basic programming.

●NodeJS eco-system ‘npm’ is the largest in the world for open source libraries.