Hmmm... Try these tidbits: NodeJS is a JS interpreter. You can run Node and execute JS code inside it. Node is written in C/C++, like V8, and so it can be comp

Hmmm... Try these tidbits: NodeJS is a JS interpreter. You can run Node and execute JS code inside it. Node is written in C/C++, like V8, and so it can be compiled for a lot of architectures. You can therefore run JS code "natively" on a machine. Node is single-threaded, event-driven, and can do IO. It's not a framework. It has a set of standard features (just like Python has a standard library) like an HTTP server for example. Frameworks for Node are written in JS and use the standard library to facilitate development of complex apps. Express is a popular Node framework to write web servers. Need more? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NodeJS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NodeJS http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/what-is-node.html http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/what-is-node.html http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1884724/what-is-node-js http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-node-js-and-why-should-i-care-web-development/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-node-js-and-why-should-...