What is node js in simple terms??

Question

I have learned a lot about frontend web development and I am looking to learn about the backend. I found that node js is one many people recommended.

Answer 1

If you've only been working with frontend web development, you've likely become familiar with JavaScript.

However, frontend Javascript works with the context of the DOM and executes within the browser.

NodeJS is the primary Javascript engine for building applications outside of the browser and certainly outside the context of the DOM.

You can do anything like:
- building RESTful APIs
- serving static web pages
- running scheduled tasks
- running any number of development workflow steps like transpiling your code, consolidating files into a single file, minification, etc, etc...
- running integration and unit tests
- deployment automation,

I could go on and on forever on the possibilities.

The key thing here is you can begin learning server side development by leveraging a language you've become familiar with already in frontend development.

Otherwise, you will need to learn another language to implement server side applications.

Answer 2

Here's the Sololearn course on NodeJS that might help:
https://www.sololearn.com/learn/9660/?ref=app

Answer 3

thank you, this helped me very much