Node.js v0.10.0 Manual. v8 - V8 JavaScript Engine. V8 is Google's open source JavaScript engine.
V8 is written in C++ and is used in Google Chrome, the open source browser from Google. V8 implements ECMAScript as specified in ECMA-262, 5th edition, and runs on Windows (XP or newer), Mac OS X (10.5 or newer), and Linux systems that use IA-32, x64, or ARM processors. Node.js. Node.js. An example: Webserver This simple web server written in Node responds with "Hello World" for every request.
To run the server, put the code into a file example.js and execute it with the node program from the command line: % node example.js Server running at.