Node.js is the software that allows you to run Javascript to create powerful server-side applications by using Google's V8 Javascript Engine. As a Node developer myself, I have always felt frustrated by seeing that Joyent, the company behind Node.s, was extremely conservative in terms of upgrading node to use the latest V8 version; the project was also struggling to get developers to actually contribute to code. This is why Fedor Indutny did the unthinkable: forked node and created IO.js. Today, the two projects are uniting possibly offering developers the best of both worlds
(Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Sunday June 21 2015, @10:20AM
My understanding its event processing done in JavaScript, which integrates nicely with AJAX frontend code. I'm not familiar with node.js itself, but flipping through the docs briefly, its the JS version of twistd from python. In short, a frontend server looks for an event (vs loading a specific script like in traditional CGI), and that event causes server-code to go; an ideal circumstance for AJAX queries, and the like.
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