6 Cool Out of the box Things you can Build using Node JS

List of creative projects to build using Node J.S.

If you haven’t heard of Node.js means you have been tucked away in a silo somewhere while the rest of the I.T. world has been churning on at a rapid pace.

Node.js is an open-source server-side runtime environment built on Google Chrome’s JavaScript V8 Engine. It’s the old wrapped in new. The good old client-side JavaScript running in a runtime environment giving it all the flexibility of compiled languages such as java or c# to access local operating system resources.

Due to NodeJS's non-blocking nature, it’s perfect for building real-time-based applications but not so much for CPU-intensive crunching apps like 3D game engines.

Since its release, it has been trending and garnered lots of support from tech startups to large cooperations such as LinkedIn, Yahoo, Mozilla and Netflix. As Node.js becomes more mature using it is more likely to be the norm than the exception.

In this post, we are going to take a look at 6 cool out-of-the-box apps you can build with node, taking into consideration the nature of the framework i.e. non-blocking and async-based coding paradigm. This list has been Curated for awesomeness and only mentions awesome applications you can build or…