Node.js

2 min readMar 2, 2020

Today, I wanted to share some of the basic stuff about Node.js

First of all…

Node.js was first introduced back in 2009 by Ryan Dahl at the annual European JSConf and was immediately recognized as “the most exciting single piece of software in the current JavaScript universe”.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications. It 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.

Node.js applications are written in JavaScript and can be run within the Node.js runtime on OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux.

Node.js also provides a rich library of various JavaScript modules which simplifies the development of web applications using Node.js to a great extent.

Next, I’ll focus on what?

Features of Node.js

As you can see following are some of the important features that make Node.js the first choice of software architects.

Asynchronous and Event-Driven
Very Fast
Single-Threaded but Highly Scalable
No Buffering
License

Where to Use Node.js?

Now let’s try to understand the areas where Node.js is proving itself

Data Streaming Applications
Data-Intensive Real-time Applications (DIRT)
JSON APIs based Applications
Single Page Applications

Let’s get down to the major benefits and drawbacks of using the Node.js…

Benefits

Better efficiency and overall developer productivity
Code sharing and reuse
Speed and performance
Easy knowledge sharing within a team
A huge number of the free tool

Drawbacks

An application programming interface (API) is not stable
Does not have a strong library support system
Asynchronous programming model

Conclusion

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