BoF: Getting Started with Node.js
summary
Explains Node.js as V8 plus a libuv event loop that runs multiple V8 instances to achieve async concurrency, warns of a 1.7 GB limit per process, and highlights the ecosystem size (crossing about 1,000,000 npm modules). Shows concrete steps: install Node and NPM, run node hello.js, use npm install + package.json to capture deps, and set up VS Code with a launch.json to place breakpoints and watch variables — demos run successfully in the IDE.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 12:26Benefits of Node.js
- 15:52Node.js Web-Enabled Hello World
- 18:16Node Architecture
- 19:37Node's Asynchronous Event Loop
- 20:19Installing Node
- 21:19Verifying Node Install
