Node.js

(Node.JavaScript) A JavaScript-based development platform for creating server-side Web applications. JavaScript is traditionally associated with Web pages and executed by the browser. However, Node.js enables JavaScript programmers to use a familiar language on the server. Based on Google's JavaScript runtime engine, Node.js includes its own Web server for greater control of HTTP functionality. See JavaScript.

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