Node was created to provide an event-based web server programming model This is not true, and it's probably why the author seems confused. Node was not primari

Node was created to provide an event-based web server programming model This is not true, and it's probably why the author seems confused. Node was not primarily designed to be a web server, nor is it particularly good at that. It is much better as a server that keeps sockets open, like for a chat application.