
If you’re ready to launch your Node.js learning mission, this post is for you: it’s a roundup of the essential information you need to get off the launchpad. You might be wondering whether there’s a place for Node.js in your programming toolbox. You might also have heard something about running JavaScript without a browser. If your development experience fits into these broad categories your awareness of Node.js may be limited to having heard the name. You might also be new to JavaScript-lots of folks are-and getting a handle on what you can do with the language.

JavaScript may be ubiquitous in the world of web development, but not every developer has been working on web front-end projects, and not every web developer has had the opportunity to get into server-side JavaScript.
