Node.js Event-driven I/O server-side JavaScript environment

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Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Source: http://nodejs.org/

Links:

https://github.com/joyent/node

http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/what-is-node.html

http://www.sitepoint.com/node-js-is-the-new-black/

http://www.sitepoint.com/whats-node-js-all-about/

http://nodeguide.com/

http://nodemanual.org/latest/

Litterature:

http://www.nodebeginner.org/

http://www.sitepoint.com/books/nodejs1/