Introducing Node.js 22
Created in 2009, Node.js is a cross-platform, open source JavaScript runtime that allows you to execute JavaScript outside of the browser. Node.js wraps Google Chrome’s JavaScript engine, V8, to enable JavaScript to be run outside the browser. Node.js brings JavaScript to the server, which enables us to interact with the operating system, network, and filesystem with JavaScript. Node.js was built following an event loop architecture, which enables it to effectively handle input/output and concurrent operations.
Today, Node.js is a popular technology choice for building many types of applications, including HTTP web servers, microservices, real-time applications, and more. Part of Node.js’s success is that it enables full-stack development in a common language, JavaScript.
The massive ecosystem of modules has supported Node.js’s success. There are over 3 million modules available on the npm
registry, with many abstracting lower-level...