Node.js incorporates the Google Chrome V8 JavaScript engine, which supports ECMAScript 2015 (ES6) syntax without any need for an ES6-to-ES5 transpiler such as Babel.

JavaScript and Node let you perform many tasks at the same time in a “non-blocking” way. This means you can tell the platform to do several things at once, without waiting for other operations ...

Uploads to Node.js will go through Ajax, and thus create a full JavaScript file uploader with JavaScript running both on the client and the server. And that’s how easy it is to create a Node.js file ...

Node, as its developers often call it for short, is a server-side, JavaScript-based, web server based on Google’s high-performance V8 engine, geared to receiving and answering HTTP requests.

PayPal reveals that writing server-side software in node.js rather than Java is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying web development. How replacing Java with JavaScript is ...