Introducing Node.js, then, is relatively easy. Everyone in a given web shop knows the basics and just has to learn about the event loop, callbacks and to how to use async flow control.

If you’re building your next-generation applications — especially APIs for mobile and Web integration in IoT — or if you are creating something new that depends on those underlying services ...

They discussed the role of Node.js — an open-source JavaScript runtime based on Chrome’s V8 engine — in Twitter’s development work and future plans for the retooling the company’s apps.

Earlier versions of JXCore allowed an app’s files to be packaged into a single .jx file for protection, but still needed the Node.js binary to run it.