Node.js & NPM

Introduction to Node.js / A beginners guide to Node.js and NPM

Sometimes it is very difficult to learn a new programming language because we generally don’t know where to begin. Node.js is nothing but JavaScript running on the server and it’s super awesome. In this article, we will learn how to set it up and understand some key concepts. By the end of this article, you will be to writing applications using Node.js.

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Before going directly into Node.js, we need to understand JavaScript first.

Introduction to JavaScript

JavaScript is dynamically typed single-threaded interpreted languages for the Web. That means if you are doing web development, you can use this language to perform some operating on the web page, like running some JavaScript code when a button is clicked by the user.

JavaScript is a dynamically typed language which means a variable can hold any data type like String or Number in its lifetime and JavaScript interpreter won’t complain about it. It’s single-threaded…