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SE Radio 230: Shubhra Khar on NodeJS
Shubhra Kar of StrongLoop talks to Jeff Meyerson about Node.js. Node allows for server-side JavaScript. Shubra and Jeff explore why Node is so important from three standpoints: isomorphic JavaScript, the single-threaded-concurrency model, and the "API economy." Isomorphic JavaScript apps have their own control and viewing logic, but they share the state and specification of the models between client and server. Node's single-threaded event loop concurrency model is ideal for Web programming, where time is traditionally wasted while waiting on I/O. The API economy is dominated by JSON…
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