

It is distributed under MIT License and can be download from their official website or Node.js Github Repository. Node.js is written in C, C++ and JavaScript. Consequently, Node.js represents a "JavaScript everywhere" paradigm, unifying web-application development around a single programming language, rather than different languages for server-side and client-side scripts. Node.js lets developers use JavaScript to write command line tools and for server-side scripting-running scripts server-side to produce dynamic web page content before the page is sent to the user's web browser. Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end, JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

Installing Node.js from Linux Yum Repository.In this guide, you will learn how to install it on CentOS / RHEL 8 based server.

Node.js is an open source JavaScript Runtime Environment.
