Overview of Node.js

Node.js is a free and open-source JavaScript runtime environment built on the V8 engine. Node.js can execute JavaScript outside of a web browse and works cross-platform. The platform is used to power many JavaScript software project and web application in production today. Node.js is perfect for data-intensive real-time applications due to its event-driven and non-block I/O model.

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