Every time I hear people mention Node.js its almost always followed by the words "web-server", so naturally I assumed Node.jswas a light weight web-server. Turns out (by just Googling node.js) that it is in fact just a JavaScript Run-time.
Once I installed Node I realised I could just run the following in a console:
$ node
> console.log('Hello');
Hello
undefined
Undefined is returned because node returns the return value of each command. This command has no return value.
The reason people always mention web-servers is because its incredibly easy to create a basic web-server with node:
web-server.js
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8080);
console.log('Server running on port 8080.');
Now running $ node web-server.js will launch the web-server, going to http://localhost:8080 will show the text.
Node.js has a very large number of library's which can be used to do almost anything. One project I am quite keen on is a drag and drop page which will parse a CSV file and output relevant data. I'm going to be working on this over the next few hours and I will update this post once complete.
Node.js has a very large number of library's which can be used to do almost anything. One project I am quite keen on is a drag and drop page which will parse a CSV file and output relevant data. I'm going to be working on this over the next few hours and I will update this post once complete.
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