Q. What is Node.js? Node.js is an open-source server side runtime environment built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. It provides an event driven, non-blocking (asynchronous) I/O and cross-platform ...

Node.js is a cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications. It runs a single-threaded event loop registered with the system to handle ...

A pure Javascript ZooKeeper client module for Node.js. This module is designed to resemble the ZooKeeper Java client API but with tweaks to follow the convention of Node.js modules. Developers that ...

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Node.js has been the delight of San Francisco hackers for the past couple years now, but startups and indie developers aren’t the only ones using JavaScript on the server side. At Node Summit today, ...

Node.js 24 has been released. The latest version of the open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime upgrades the Google V8 JavaScript engine to version 13.6 and the NPM package manager to version ...

Thousands of applications were broken on Tuesday after a programmer unpublished a critical module in npm, a package manager for widely-used JavaScript projects. Countless projects were left in limbo ...

The developer of JavaScript library node-ipc, which is used by the popular vue.js framework, deliberately introduced a critical security vulnerability that, for some netizens, would destroy their ...