Node.js: running JavaScript on the server (!)", "episode_description": "

JavaScript language is primarily used inside

your web browser. Your computer downloads a JavaScript file and executes it on your machine. But if you want tobuild a dynamic website, you need a server-side language. Like PHP, Java, Python, etc. Programs written in theselanguages handle incoming requests and produce dynamic HTML. HTML that varies, depending on the request, who isasking and what data is available in the underlying database. But for more than a decade we can also use JavaScripton the server. The same language can be used for a very different purpose. Namely, listening and handling webrequests. But also implementing command-line utilities and one-off scripts. This became possible after extractingthe JavaScript engine from Chrome browser.

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