The industry-standard asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 engine.
Technical Overview & Architecture
Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment that executes JavaScript code outside of a web browser. Powered by Google Chrome's V8 engine and libuv event loop, Node.js is the foundational backend infrastructure powering modern web servers, microservices, and npm — the world's largest software registry with over 3 million packages.
Pricing Breakdown
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Open Source
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- 100% free open source
- LTS Long-Term Support releases
- No vendor lock-in
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