Hands-on Node.js: The Node.js introduction and API reference

At the European JSConf 2009, a young programmer by the name of Ryan Dahl, introduced a project he had been working on. This project was a platform that combining Google's V8 Javascript engine and an event loop. The project then took a different direction from other server-side Javascript platforms: all I/O primitives were event-driven, and there was no way around it. Leveraging the power and simplicity of Javascript, it turned the difficult task of writing asynchronous applications into an

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easy one. Since receiving a standing ovation at the end of his talk, Dahl's project has been met with unprecedented growth, popularity and adoption.

The project was named Node.js, now known to developers simply as 'Node'. N

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adult
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short · 147 pages

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