David Herron - Node.js Web Development: Server-side web development made easy with Node 14 using practical examples, 5th Edition

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David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication . Today, David is a n independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies. The blog posts appear on TechSparx, Medium, GreenTransportation, and LongTailPipe. Using Node.js, he is the creator of AkashaCMS, a static website generator, and AkashaEPUB, a tool for generating eBooks .

Esref Durna has worked as a full stack engineer since 2004. He has worked as first engineer at several Silicon Valley start-ups, and currently works at American Express as a full stack engineer focused on micro-frontends.

Migsar Navarro is a full stack developer who loves programming in JavaScript because he finds it one of the most flexible and expressive programming languages. He enjoys building web applications that are as useful for the users as they are for the programmers that who the code. He is passionate about sharing knowledge, demystifying engineering, software architecture, and geographical information systems. He lives in Porto with his girl and his daughter.

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Node.js is a server-side JavaScript platform that allows developers to build fast and scalable applications using JavaScript outside of web browsers. It is playing an ever-wider role in the software development world, having started as a platform for server applications but now seeing wide use in command-line developer tools and even in GUI applications, thanks to toolkits such as Electron. Node.js has liberated JavaScript from being stuck in the browser.

It runs on top of the ultra-fast JavaScript engine at the heart of Google's Chrome browser, V8. The Node.js runtime follows an ingenious event-driven model that's widely used for concurrent processing capacity despite using a single-thread model.

The primary focus of Node.js is high-performance, highly scalable web applications, but it is seeing adoption in other areas. For example, Electron, the Node.js-based wrapper around the Chrome engine, lets Node.js developers create desktop GUI applications and is the foundation on which many popular applications have been built, including the Atom and Visual Studio Code editors, GitKraken, Postman, Etcher, and the desktop Slack client. Node.js is popular on Internet of Things devices. Its architecture is especially well suited to microservice development and often helps form the server side of full-stack applications.