Node is getting the popularity in web world, slowly capturing the Java market share of web. Node is super fast, it’s asynchronous and based on Chrome V8 engine.
Though Node is single threaded, it gets its power from the event loop which intelligently leaves the heavy process tasks to host operating system.
Though Node has familiar syntax of JavaScript, people coming from standard programming languages may face difficulty in understanding it initially. It’s not a fault of Node. Developer first needs to develop good understanding of ECMAScript, which makes it easy for him to understand Node.
This Node Tutorial primarily focuses on the Node concepts only. Prerequisite to this tutorial is, developer needs a good understanding of JavaScript’s ECMAScript concepts.
We will be covering below concepts in this tutorial: