Node.js - lightweight and efficient
Using Node.js you can write a web server in as little as six lines of code.
Here is a variation for the sample from the Node.js (Node.js Synopsis)
//Imports the http library
var = require(http);
http.createServer(function(request, response){
response.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'text/plain'});
response.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124);
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');
I was asking myself why would i want a server side javascript (which is the whole idea of Node.js) ?
Besides that it uses a non-blocking I/O model (this means that other processing can continue if it does not depend fro an I/O to complete, kind of like an asynchronous call to perform the I/O) .
One use case that i can think of is that I can wrap other services (e.g. other source of data like json/xml) specially ones that are exposed as web service APIs (e.g. Google APIs).
Here is a variation for the sample from the Node.js (Node.js Synopsis)
//Imports the http library
var = require(http);
http.createServer(function(request, response){
response.writeHead(200,{'Content-Type':'text/plain'});
response.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(8124);
console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8124/');
I was asking myself why would i want a server side javascript (which is the whole idea of Node.js) ?
Besides that it uses a non-blocking I/O model (this means that other processing can continue if it does not depend fro an I/O to complete, kind of like an asynchronous call to perform the I/O) .
One use case that i can think of is that I can wrap other services (e.g. other source of data like json/xml) specially ones that are exposed as web service APIs (e.g. Google APIs).
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