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🗒️ Class 01: Node Ecosystem

How would you describe Node to a non-technical friend?
- Node is a Javascript Runtime that essentially allows the user to run javascript application outside of a browser. You can think of it like watching a preview of a Netflix movie without the need to click on the movie just yet.
What does it mean that Node is a JavaScript runtime?
- It simply means that Node.js is a program that uses Javascript to execute the code.
What is Node used for?
- Node is used to allow us to run JavaScript on a server different from how traditional servers and languages runs our code. With the more traditional method, the server has to wait for code to execute before processing result where as with Node, it does everything asynchronously, meaning it processes the next event in a code even if it is still waiting for the previous code to respond back to the prior request.

Looking ahead at this module’s course schedule, What do you look forward to learning?
- I am looking forwared to Module 2, elaring about Authentication and role-based control as well as module 4 and learning to use AWS.
What are your learning goals after reading and reviewing the class README?
- Some of my learning goals include looking into using APIs and creating authentication with relational databases vs NoSQL DB and really understanding how to tie in server side code and clientside code for a full user experience.

Node is a JavaScript Runtime Environment that is powered by V8 Engine and is similar to the Chrome Browser