Node.js is a lean, fast, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that is useful for both servers and desktop applications.

Initially released in 2009, Node.js was designed to ease the process of developing scalable distributed applications with streaming and low latency in mind. It is asynchronous, allowing modules ...

Node.js, a cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment for servers and applications, offers many benefits.

A new open-source contribution from Microsoft uses the Windows Azure Service Bus to provide scale out support for real-time Node.js applications. This module, called socket.io-servicebus, connects ...