Node.js

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Node.js is an open source project based on the Google Chrome JavaScript Engine. It provides a platform for server-side JavaScript applications running without browsers.

Many developers are basing the architecture of their real-time applications on the Node.js framework because of its inherent event-driven architecture and non-blocking I/O API. But the power of that architecture can't be realized unless the hosting environment provides enterprise-grade scalability and reliability, and that is where the IBM® i platform enters into the picture.

Node.js can be run on the IBM i platform. In addition, extensions have been created to allow Node.js applications to access IBM DB2® for i objects and IBM i system resources and objects.

To find out everything about running Node.js applications on IBM i, see the IBM i Open Source Technologies Link outside Information Center support page.