Node.js Web Service

- Why We Should Pay Attention to Node.js

Node.js

Node.js is a platform designed for building scalable network applications on Chrome’s JavaScript runtime (V8: Google’s open source JavaScript engine). Programs are written in JavaScript that is fit for writing servers due to its event-driven nature. Developers not only get benefit from the speed of V8, but also Node.js/JavaScript makes developers write code that is fast by design.

Benefits for Web Developers

Many web developers can use some frameworks to leverage JavaScript on the browser, for example, jQuery or MooTools. That means these web developers will be familiar with Node.js even though Node.js is a different environment with unique and constructs. Web developers can build programs that have been typically considered out of reach or too time consuming because of the expressiveness of JavaScript and the powerful Node.js API. By using Node.js, web developers can choose many powerful modules from large module library that contains hundreds of modules.

Key Advantages of Using Node.js

- Node.js is powerful by the V8, Google’s open source JavaScript engine that makes JavaScript execution extremely fast.

- Due to the event-driven nature of JavaScript, web developers can write application code very fast.

- Many web applications today require JavaScript technology to make the application decent by modern standards, such as Facebook and the latest version of Twitter are adopt JavaScript for most interactions. It cloud be brilliant if web developers can write the backend services or other parts of application in the same language.

- Node.js is suited for the advance of the real-time web.