{"id":33349,"date":"2023-02-06T17:40:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-node-js-the-beginning-what-is-the-point-closed\/"},"modified":"2023-02-06T17:40:07","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T12:10:07","slug":"solved-node-js-the-beginning-what-is-the-point-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-node-js-the-beginning-what-is-the-point-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] Node.js the beginning what is the point? [closed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-22881474\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"22881474\" data-parentid=\"22880860\" data-score=\"1\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>You might find it very helpful to take the time to watch one of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=ryan+dahl+node\">Ryan Dahl&#8217;s talks<\/a> about why he created node.<\/p>\n<p>In answer to your questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it the same as C# running in IIS?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No, because in that case, IIS is providing all kinds of web-server like services. In Node, your app <em>is<\/em> the server. For example, with IIS\/C#, your C# wouldn&#8217;t need to worry about serving up (e.g.) static image files. With Node, your node app needs to take care of that. As a practical matter, you will use a framework to do this. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/senchalabs\/connect\">Connect<\/a>, which underlies Express, is a framework that takes care of most of the things you would normally expect your web server or container to take care of for you.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you install on GoDaddy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My understanding with respect to GoDaddy would be &#8216;no&#8217; but there are a variety of hosting options dedicated to node, and you can also just get a &#8216;plain&#8217; virtual machine and install node. Heroku, Joyent, Nodejitsu are probably the &#8220;big brands&#8221; in specialized node.js hosting, although there are others. And obviously there are no shortage of places where you can just get a linux VM in the cloud. I personally like Digital Ocean for plain basic VMs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Is it good to learn and is it easy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is probably a reason you are getting downvotes, in addition to an apparent lack of research about Node&#8217;s &#8216;point,&#8217; since it is very much an opinion-based question. Personally I found it easy enough to get the hang of. Having said that, it&#8217;s &#8220;evented&#8221; or many would say &#8220;event-driven&#8221; and single-threaded nature do make it fundamentally different than technologies you may have used before. Again, you&#8217;ll get a sense of this if you watch one of Dahl&#8217;s talks. Javascript is also different from many common languages you may have used for the web, in that it is a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Functional_programming\">functional language<\/a> and rather than being class-based, Javascript uses prototypal inheritance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Role of Express<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Express, which I made mention of earlier as well as being built on\/with Connect, is the most common base framework for developing apps. It provides a number of services so you don&#8217;t have to reinvent the wheel yourself and also provides an organizing philosophy to your app.<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps some. Watch a couple of the videos.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved Node.js the beginning what is the point? 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