{"id":73229,"date":"2020-01-15T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?p=73229"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:27:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:57:12","slug":"what-is-node-js-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/what-is-node-js-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Node.js?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/mean-stack-tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go back to Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Node.js is an open-source server side runtime environment built on Chrome&#8217;s V8 JavaScript engine. It provides an event driven, non-blocking (asynchronous) I\/O and cross-platform runtime environment for building highly scalable server-side application using JavaScript.<\/p>\n<p>Node.js can be used to build different types of applications such as command line application, web application, real-time chat application, REST API server etc. However, it is mainly used to build network programs like web servers, similar to PHP, Java, or ASP.NET. Node.js was written and introduced by Ryan Dahl in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Node.js is a server-side platform built on Google Chrome&#8217;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 \u2212<\/p>\n<p>Node.js is a platform built on Chrome&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Node.js = Runtime Environment + JavaScript Library<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Important links<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>js official web site: https:\/\/nodejs.org<\/li>\n<li>js on github: https:\/\/github.com\/nodejs\/node<\/li>\n<li>js community conference http:\/\/nodeconf.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Features of Node.js<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Following are some of the important features that make Node.js the first choice of software architects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asynchronous and Event Driven \u2212 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.<\/li>\n<li>Very Fast \u2212 Being built on Google Chrome&#8217;s V8 JavaScript Engine, Node.js library is very fast in code execution.<\/li>\n<li>Single Threaded but Highly Scalable \u2212 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.<\/li>\n<li>No Buffering \u2212js applications never buffer any data. 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