Node.js to Built chat App using Socket.io

Here we going to built real time chat App using Node.js with socket.io and nodemon dependency Dependencies Socket.IO Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. Socket abstract WebSocket connections. It uses WebSocket for transportation and then fallback to long polling when Websockets fail to establish a connection Nodemon A tool that helps develop Node.js applications by automatically … Read more

Node.js Core Modules

Node.js comes with dozens of built-in modules. These built-in modules, sometimes referred to as core modules, give you access to tools for working with the file system, making http requests, creating web servers, and more The module system is built around the require function. This function is used to load in a module and get … Read more

What is DIRTy applications in Node.js ?

There actually is an acronym for the types of applications Node is designed for: DIRT. It stands for data-intensive real-time applications. Because Node itself is very lightweight on I/O, it’s good at shuffling or proxying data from one pipe to another. It allows a server to hold a number of connections open while handling many … Read more

What is Node.js ?

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. Node.js uses V8, the virtual machine that powers Google Chrome, for server-side programming. V8 gives Node … Read more