Node.js - Programming language

Node.js is an open source programming language created in 2009 by Ryan Dahl.

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Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a browser. Typically, JavaScript is used primarily for client-side scripting, in which scripts written in JavaScript are embedded in a webpage's HTML and run client-side by a JavaScript engine in the user's web browser. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write Command Line tools and for server-side scripting—running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Node.js is developed on GitHub and has 105,706 stars
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Early development of Node.js happened in OpenJS Foundation
Node.js is written in JavaScript, C++, C, Python, HTML, JSON, Perl, Markdown, Assembly language, TypeScript, Bourne shell, YAML, CMake, starlark, reStructuredText, M4, Make, Pascal, Diff, WebAssembly, XML, CSS, PowerShell, IDL, Bash, SVG, Rust, CSV, R, XHTML, Lisp, TOML, SQL, Vim script, Fortran 90, Bazel, Scheme, C#, PHP, awk, Ruby, CoffeeScript, Ini, JSX, Dockerfile, sed
Check out the 1,560 Node.js meetup groups on Meetup.com.
There are 213,404 members in the Node.js subreddit
In the 2021 StackOverflow developer survey Node.js programmers reported a median salary of $54,672. 34% of respondents reported using Node.js. 27,975 programmers reported using Node.js, and 24,100 said they wanted to use it
There is a central package repository for Node.js
Indeed.com has 6,864 matches for "nodejs developer".
nodejs.org was registered in 2009
See also: (20 related languages) C, JavaScript, Linux, FreeBSD, npm, TCP, TLS, UDP, Unix, CoffeeScript, Dart, TypeScript, PHP, MPS, Visual Studio, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, JSON

Example from hello-world:

#!/usr/bin/env node

console.log('Hello World');

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		console.log
Streams	✓	const stream = require('stream');
File Imports	✓	const fs = require("fs")
Disk Output	✓	require("fs").writeFileSync("foo.txt", "foo", "utf8")
Case Insensitive Identifiers	X