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Node.js

Created: 2015-03-23 19:24  |  Source: https://nodejs.org/

node.js

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.

Current Version: v0.12.0

An example: Webserver

This simple web server written in Node responds with "Hello World" for every request.

var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/');

To run the server, put the code into a file example.js and execute it with the node program from the command line:

% node example.js
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/

Here is an example of a simple TCP server which listens on port 1337 and echoes whatever you send it:

var net = require('net');

var server = net.createServer(function (socket) {
  socket.write('Echo server\r\n');
  socket.pipe(socket);
});

server.listen(1337, '127.0.0.1');

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