Node js

Node.js is a framework that is built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime to quickly build scalable and highly robust web applications. It employs an object-oriented and unhampered I/O model so that it can be lightweight, efficient, and ideal for real-time, data-intensive applications running on distributed devices. Some of the features of Node.js include asynchronous and event-based, high speed, single-threaded but highly scalable, unbuffered, and licensed. Companies that use this technology are eBay, General Electric, GoDaddy, Microsoft, PayPal, Uber, Yahoo!, Etc. Node.js is proving itself to be an ideal technology partner in a variety of sectors, including Data Streaming Apps, I/O bound Applications, Data-Intensive Real-time Apps (DIRT), Single Page Apps and JSON APIs based Apps.