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Node.js is the most promising new web application server. The key features are: * It's designed around an event loop and non-blocking IO * It executes serv
by js4all 16y ago
Node.js is the most promising new web application server. The key features are:
* It's designed around an event loop and non-blocking IO
* It executes server-side JavaScript on Google's V8 engine
* It's fast and high troughput
* Node.js is currently adopted by Joyent, Heroku, Yahoo and many others
Details about Node.js can be found here: http://nodejs.org/ http://nodejs.org/
- viraptor 16y agoYeah - I meant - I know what NodeJS is - but what is that whole Joyent / no.de thing about? Is it hosted NodeJS? Or something completely different?
- js4all 16y agoGreat, I couldn't really believe that someone missed the hype. And yes, both provide early beta hosted Node.js. Heroku use their current infrastructure and offer node.js dynos on their new Beech stack. It's easy and fun to use. Joyent offers a full VPS based on SunOS. It can host node.js and other supporting packages, databases, all freely installable. You can even ssh into a SmartEngine. Ryan Dahl, the creator of node.js, has joined Joyent.