Node.js and its installation
As we learned in the previous chapter, Node.js is a runtime environment built on Google’s V8 engine. You can build a wide variety of applications using it:
- Web applications: Node.js is a popular choice for building both the backend and frontend of web applications. Its JavaScript-based environment makes it easy for developers to work on both sides.
- Real-time applications: Node.js’s event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O model make it ideal for building real-time applications such as chat apps, collaboration tools, and streaming services. These applications require constant communication between users and the server, and Node.js can handle this efficiently.
- Single-page applications (SPAs): SPAs are web applications that load a single HTML page and update the content dynamically using JavaScript. Node.js can be used to build the backend API that provides data to the SPA client-side code.
- API-driven applications: Many...
