It uses the V8 JavaScript engine to execute JavaScript code outside of a web browser. With Node.js, you can use JavaScript to write command line tools and to perform server-side scripting.

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

I'm reading Learning Node.js by Marc Wandschneider. I've been able to do everything in the chapters up until Chapter 6, where we get to serving static pages, using Mustache.JS Granted, the book is ...