Introduction to NodeJs

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What is Node JS

https://nodejs.org/en Its a JS runtime built on top of chrome v8 JS Engine. Node JS is Cross Platform ( Can run on different type of systems) , Open Source: Code is Open and Managed by Open JS Foundation ( Organization) and it executes JavaScript outside the web browsers. Node JS has an event driven architecture ( will discuss later) and capable of Asynchronous / non blocking I/O

History of NodeJS

2009: Node JS born

First version came in 2009 developed by : Ryan Dahl

2010 : NPM born

NPM came in the picture ( package manager ) Anyone can do a work and post in NPM for public use

2011: windows came

initially Node JS was developed it was just for Mac OS and Linux in 2011 windows support came and ( Joyent + Microsoft ) they given node js support for windows

2012: NPM NodeJS friendship

Joyent said they will not be managing Node JS now Isaac Z. Schlueter took over it and he was the creator of the NPM https://izs.me/

2014: Fedor Indutny forked and made IO.js

Because When development was slow nowadays because Joyent has left so people was started contributing it Fedor Indutny was one of those

Now everything was scattered because two versions of Node Js was running

2015 ( Sep) : Node.js Foundation Came

Node.js Foundation came and resolved all conflicts between io.js and others a legal foundation started managing this

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/1416

2019 : git merge two-foundations

There was two foundations and both are merged

Now Open JS foundation is managing Node JS

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