✨ 💫 learning node from the ground up ✨
What is node ❓
A javascript runtime 🌚
A way to run javascript outside of the browser(especially on servers) 👌
A javascript runtime built on chrome's v8 engine. Uses an event driven non-blocking io making it efficient and perfect for real-time applications.
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A number of things to know:
Asynchronuos I/O 🙀
Does not need to wait for a process to finish in order to execute another (non blocking) This optimizes throughput and scalability making node fast. 👍
Environment setup
You will need the following: