Environment: What is Node.js?

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At the end of the course, students will be able to plan, design, and implement a web site using current standards and best practices.

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Environment: What is Node.js? #4

Open TonyGoodDay2 opened 7 years ago

TonyGoodDay2 commented 7 years ago

What is Node.js?

cmitchell74 commented 7 years ago

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.

jjsahn commented 7 years ago

It's a framework for JS runtime.

TonyGoodDay2 commented 7 years ago

Why is this important? This is going to be our "Development Web Server".specifically, we are building our web server using node.js

TonyGoodDay2 commented 7 years ago

To download it on windows machine: https://nodejs.org/en/

To test it after download and install: