What is NodeJS

Now more than ever developers are using Node.js to to configure run and build their websites. Node, according to their site, is a JavaScript (js) runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node is NOT a framework or coding language, the language is JavaScript, only it runs on your machine or container as a service instead of how it traditionally runs on the browser. In a nutshell, it allows you to run js on your server.

I will leave some links at the bottom of this article for you to dive deeper if you want, but we are just going to scratch the surface of node's capabilities in this article.