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copied!<p>Directly from the <a href="/questions/tagged/node.js" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'node.js'" rel="tag">node.js</a> tag wiki, make sure watch some of the talk videos linked there to get a better idea.</p> <hr> <p><a href="http://nodejs.org/">Node.js</a> is an event based, asynchronous I/O framework that uses Google's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_%28JavaScript_engine%29">V8 JavaScript Engine</a>. </p> <p>Node.js - or just Node as it's commonly called - is used for developing applications that make heavy use of the ability to run <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript">JavaScript</a> both on the client, as well as on server side and therefore benefit from the re-usability of code and the lack of context switching.</p> <p>It's also possible to use matured JavaScript frameworks like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_UI_Library">YUI</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery">jQuery</a> for server side DOM manipulation.</p> <p>To ease the development of complex JavaScript further, Node.js supports the <a href="http://www.commonjs.org/">CommonJS</a> standard that allows for modularized development and the distribution of software in packages via the <a href="https://github.com/isaacs/npm">Node Package Manager</a>.</p> <h3>Applications that can be written using Node.js include, but are not limited to:</h3> <ul> <li>Static file servers</li> <li>Web Application frameworks</li> <li>Messaging middle ware</li> <li>Servers for HTML5 multi player games</li> </ul>

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