Node.js

Overview

• A JavaScript runtime build on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine

• single thread

• event-driven

• non-blocking I/O

• cross-platform

Pros & Cons

Pros	Cons
Concurrent request handling	Callback hell
Fast processing	Not suitable for CPU-intensive tasks
Asynchronous event drive I/O	-
Universal across client and server	-
Community	-

References: https://nodejs.org/en/