What is Node?
What is Node? It is a runtime of JavaScript; meaning it is a way of running JavaScript outside the browser. Now, it's not the JavaScript that front-end developers are used to because there is no longer a browser to work with. But all JavaScript's core parts remain: arrays, objects, loops, conditionals, architecture asynchronous, etc. This means that if you are able to write JavaScript in the browser, you just need to let go of the browser and write code for anything. Just like PHP, ASP, etc. What are the advantages of learning Node? You don't have to learn a new language to use Node once you've learned JavaScript, and you can use it throughout the stack. Unlike all other languages, you can write JavaScript from start to finish and even accept JSON natively. It works especially well whenever you receive a lot of requests because JavaScript is asynchronous. It's incredibly fast when it comes to traffic handling, and it has any language's largest modul...