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Re:Node.js v9.2.0 by rmrfrmrf on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @09:53AM (#15704130)
- Lightweight

- Portable

- Cross-platform

- “Fast enough” out-of-the-box

- Massive ecosystem

- No need for an application container

- Actively developed and maintained

- Supports procedural, object-oriented, and functional styles equally

- Non-proprietary programming language

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Re:Node.js v9.2.0 by lewisl9029 on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @10:04AM (#15704221)
Really hard to understate the "Massive ecosystem" aspect for Node.

It's the reason why Node was at the forefront for this new wave of client-centric graph query systems (GraphQL, Falcor) that is well on its path to displacing REST as the go-to model for client-server communication.

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