Open TonyGoodDay2 opened 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.
It's a framework for JS runtime.
Why is this important? This is going to be our "Development Web Server".specifically, we are building our web server using node.js
What is Node.js?