What Is Node.js and Why Should You Use It?

What Is Node.js?

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform runtime environment and library for executing JavaScript code outside of a browser. It uses an event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking I/O architecture, making it lightweight and efficient for data-intensive real-time applications running across distributed devices.

Node.js is neither a framework nor a programming language but a runtime environment. It was written and introduced by Ryan Dahl in 2009.
Node.js was built on top of chrome V8 JavaScript Engine that is written in C++ language. All the JavaScript code is executed by the V8 JavaScript engine; which converts the code into Assembly code, which is then converted into machine code. Machine code is something that a computer processor understands.

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