Node.js is an open-source JavaScript run time robust platform that is built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript Engine. Node.js has been developed with the aim of providing a JavaScript based application development a scaffold that is secure, powerful and reliable. It is a system, primarily used for structuring server-side Web Applications and further enables the developers to construct a strong network. Furthermore, it employs an event-driven and a non blocking I/O- the input-output processing that lets the other processing to start and continue without interrupting the transmission of the ongoing processing, that makes the real-time web applications even more dynamic and productive.
- Easy to install and execute locally
- Node.JS is extremely inexpensive to test and deploy using Pay as You Grow services
- It is relatively easy to develop software real-time systems
- Very much scalable due to asynchronous and event-driven processing
- It is very fast, also containing very speedy native bindings(C)
- An important feature, universality: in Node.JS the code is written in one language, but can be run on multiple platforms which makes it different from other open source technologies.
- It has comparatively high performance: Node.JS distributes a small heap per connection, comparing to other server side solutions, which usually create a big thread for each incoming connection and slow down the performance.
- You get amazing performance for HTTP and TCP protocols
- You also get shorter parsing time.
