Developing
responsive websites with complete content control and scalability using Node.js.
Node.js is an
open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript runtime environment (Framework) that
executes JavaScript code outside a web browser. Node.js lets developers use
JavaScript to write command-line tools and for server-side scripting—running
scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent
to the user's web browser. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript
everywhere" paradigm, unifying web application development around a single
programming language, rather than different languages for server- and
client-side scripts.
Though .js is
the standard filename extension for JavaScript code, the name
"Node.js" doesn't refer to a particular file in this context and is
merely the name of the product. Node.js has an event-driven architecture
capable of asynchronous I/O. These design choices aim to optimize throughput
and scalability in web applications with many input/output operations, as well
as for real-time Web applications (e.g., real-time communication programs and
browser games).
Express.js,
or simply Express is a web application framework for Node.js, released as free
and open-source software under the MIT License. It is designed for building web
applications and APIs. It has been called the de facto standard server
framework for Node.js.
