First step with server side JavaScript (Node.js)

When i started with Node.js then at that time in my mind have many question.

1)What is Node.js ?

Node.js  is a platform built on Chrome’s JavaScript run-time 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.     by Node.js

2)Why should i use Node.js ?

Node is especially suited for applications where you’d like to maintain a persistent connection from the browser back to the server. Using a technique known as “long-polling”, you can write an application that sends updates to the user in real time. Doing long polling on many of the web’s giants, like rails or django, would create immense load on the server, because each active client eats up one server process. This situation amounts to a tarpit attack. When you use something like node, the server has no need of maintaining separate threads for each open connection.

This means you can create a browser-based chat app in node that takes almost no system resources to serve a great many clients. Any time you want to do this sort of long-polling, node is a great option. by Stackoverflow

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.     by [Node.js](http://nodejs.org/)

I saw many links and tutorials but which problem i faced that is how i executed my code in Node.js i think many people who started in Node.js  they get benefited.but to start with Node.js you have setup of Node.js  for this

first go to http://nodejs.org/ in this GO to install option and here click on install option

OR

if you want to download installer according to you then click on Download button http://nodejs.org/download/ here you choose your respective installer in my case i am using Window and choose window installer but if you are using Unix based systems, such as Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD.You will need to use the terminal to install and run Node.js .

Download the latest release of Node.js from nodejs.org and unzip it.Open the terminal, and run the following commands.

cd /path/to/nodejs
make
sudo make install

after this many messages will be outputted to the terminal as Node.js is compiled and installed.

now when you type in your terminal

node -v
//then it show the node version

After installation, type node at the command line to bring up the read-eval-print loop (REPL). You can test your installation by typing:

console.log('Hello world')

You should receive:

Hello world
undefined

If you saw like above then, congratulations! You have just written your first Node.js program.The console always prints out the return type. This is why Hello world is followed by undefined.

now we will start with a js file

make a js file with “any name”+”.js”

in my case i named as “first.js”

first.js

console.log("my first step in node");

no go to your terminal

type node and path of your file

like in my case file in D:drive in nodetest  folder names as first.js then i will write

node d:nodetest/first.js

// then output will appear

my first step in node

here i share a very basic knowledge about node to start with node js hope you guys like it and

** In My Next Post I Will share with some deep in Node.js **