Node.js is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript run time for easily building scalable, fast network applications. Node.js uses an non-blocking, event-driven I/O model that makes it efficient and lightweight, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
AN EXAMPLE: WEBSERVER
This simple web server written in Node responds with “Hello Node” for every request.
var http = require(‘http’);
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
res.writeHead(200, {‘Content-Type’: ‘text/plain’});
res.end(‘Hello Node\n’);
}).listen(1337, ’127.0.0.1′);
console.log(‘Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/’);
To run the server, put the code into a file example.js and execute it with the node program:
% node example.js
Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/
Here is an example of a simple TCP server which listens on port 1337 and echoes whatever you send it:
var net = require(‘net’);
var server = net.createServer(function (socket) {
socket.write(‘Echo server\r\n’);
socket.pipe(socket);
});server.listen(1337, ’127.0.0.1′);