Use Node.js as a full cloud environment development stack
Embrace the concurrency model using asynchronous I/O via callbacks, and build a chat server
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Date archived: May 14, 2019 | First published: April 25, 2011
Explore Node.js, an event-driven I/O framework for the version 8 JavaScript™ engine on UNIX®-like platforms designed for writing scalable network programs such as web servers. This article examines the framework, the ecosystem surrounding it (including cloud offerings), and wraps up with a comprehensive example of how to build a chat server in Node.js.
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