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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 21 2015, @11:28AM
If you want to see what the entire nodeJS index.js file (which runs everything) looks like you can head over to https://darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca/ [darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca] and check under articles. I wrote one there about nodejs and how to setup your first server (it takes about 10 minutes maybe, which is again a really big improvement).