Episode 41: Node.js

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Node.js

• Overview
• Javascript is the only language supported in all modern browsers
• Node.js allows javascript client & server
• npm - node package manager
• History
• 2008 V8 Javascript Engine Released
• Developed by Google for Chrome
• 2009 Initial version released by Ryan Dahl working at Joyent
• Pros
• Javascript object -> JSON string -> Javascript object -> object database
• Share libraries across client/server
• Especially important for validation
• Great MVC Frameworks
• Express
• Asynchronous
• Cons
• Weakly Typed
• Callback hell (explicit async/sync)
• Performance
• Single threaded
• Interpreted