This tutorial uses Node.js version 10.16.0. Node.js installed on your development machine.

To complete this tutorial, you will need: To do this, you’ll learn how to output strings to the console, receive input from the user, and access environment variables. You’ll be introduced to a few Node-specific concepts and build your way up to create a program that helps users inspect environment variables on their system. In this tutorial you’ll create your first program with the Node.js runtime. Real-time applications, like video streaming, or applications that continuously send and receive data, can run more efficiently when written in Node.js. Using JavaScript throughout your entire stack can help reduce time for context switching, and libraries are more easily shared between your back-end server and front-end projects.Īlso, thanks to its support for asynchronous execution, Node.js excels at I/O-intensive tasks, which is what makes it so suitable for the web. Learning Node.js will allow you to write your front-end code and your back-end code in the same language. The Node runtime is commonly used to create command line tools and web servers. Node.js is a popular open-source runtime environment that can execute JavaScript outside of the browser using the V8 JavaScript engine, which is the same engine used to power the Google Chrome web browser’s JavaScript execution.

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