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Dec 18.2013

While I was doing some research on Ruby + Rails, I cam across Node.Js. I have seen people bring it up before but I have never understood it. From some of the blogs I have been reading, they say it allows you to use javascript as the server-side language.

Is Node.JS meant to replace PHP or Ruby for the server-side language?

Does anyone here use it? If so, what are its advantages over another server-side language?

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@mogulmanDec 18.2013 — I research this several months ago. I thought I might use it. It is not the same as PHP. This is my take on it. Basically you can create a specialized web server using it. It uses Google's Javascript engine. It runs in a single thread and is non-blocking. It can handle a lot of transactions. Everyone gives a chat app as an example. I was planning to try it to do a database app but I need to connect to an ODBC db and no one has written a module to support that. I bought a book on it - WROX Professional Node.js. I read some of it. I setup Visual Studio Express for Web to develop Node.js. I did a small program in it. Webmatrix also supports Node.js. I'll try to do more next year.
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@ronexJul 11.2014 — Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

To install Node.JS in your system follow this helpful tutorial :

http://jstricks.com/install-node-js/
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