Everything You Need To Know About Node.js
Nisha Gopinath Menon
August 11, 2017
With Node.js, JavaScript has embraced the server. Node.js has gained a lot of popularity with coders everywhere using it to create real-time web APIs and build a new matrix of interoperability across the Internet. Even so, Node.js is not a JavaScript framework. What exactly is this tool finding its way into Web applications, microcontrollers, operating systems wrappers, and robots? At its core, Node.js is a stripped-down, highly customizable server engine, but outside of this, you have to set it up for it to do anything. Node.js is an event-based platform, and everything which happens is a reaction to an event. In other words, it processes in a loop, ready to accept and respond to requests. This loop, known as the event loop, is the "runtime" part and this is what keeps a Node.js application running.
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