Posts tagged with "node"

With a little work, node can be used as a complete web server, but it's probably something you shouldn't do. Node's speed is limited when it comes to traditional web-server applications because it runs inside an interpreter (like all javascript) and just wont be as as fast at things like reading from disk.

As a web developer, building a node server has a lot of value not only in terms of gaining node programming skill, but also in understanding how web servers and fundamental web technologies such as HTTP work.