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Chapter 4. Writing Tests for PHPUnit. 2. What is Node.js? - Mixu's Node book. In this chapter, I: describe the Node.js event loop and the premise behind asynchronous I/O go through an example of how context switches are made between V8 and Node Node - or Node.js, as it is called to distinguish it from other "nodes" - is an event-driven I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine.
Node.js allows Javascript to be executed on the server side, and it uses the wicked fast V8 Javascript engine which was developed by Google for the Chrome browser. The basic philosophy of node.js is: