Node.js: running JavaScript on the server (!)", "episode_description": "

JavaScript language is primarily used inside

your web browser. Your computer downloads a JavaScript file and executes it on your machine. But if you want to

build a dynamic website, you need a server-side language. Like PHP, Java, Python, etc. Programs written in these

languages handle incoming requests and produce dynamic HTML. HTML that varies, depending on the request, who is

asking and what data is available in the underlying database. But for more than a decade we can also use JavaScript

on the server. The same language can be used for a very different purpose. Namely, listening and handling web

requests. But also implementing command-line utilities and one-off scripts. This became possible after extracting

the JavaScript engine from Chrome browser.

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