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Daniel Li is a full-stack JavaScript developer at Nexmo. Previously, he was also the Managing Director of Brew, a digital agency in Hong Kong that specializes in MeteorJS. A proponent of knowledge-sharing and open source, Daniel has written over 100 blog posts and in-depth tutorials, helping hundreds of thousands of readers navigate the world of JavaScript and the web.
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What is Node.js?

As you learned in Chapter 2, The State of JavaScript, Node.js is "JavaScript on the server". Before we move forward, let's delve a little deeper into understanding what that means.

Traditionally, JavaScript is interpreted by a JavaScript engine that converts JavaScript code into more optimized, machine-executable code, which then gets executed. The engine interprets the JavaScript code at the time it is run. This is unlike compiled languages such as C#, which must first be compiled into an intermediate language (IL), where this IL is then executed by the common language runtime (CLR), software similar in function to the JavaScript engine.

 

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Technically, it is inaccurate to classify a language as interpreted or compiled—how a language is processed depends on the implementation. Someone can build a compiler that converts JavaScript into machine code and run it; in that instance, JavaScript would be a compiled language.However, since JavaScript is almost always interpreted...

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