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It took two node.js engineers a few months to build the necessary software, almost half the time it took the five-man Java team, with the node.js app written in 33 percent fewer lines of code and ...

Then Node.js was spawned, turning developers’ heads with its speed. Not only was JavaScript faster on the server than anyone had expected, but it was often faster than Java and other options.

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One language was all it took to build Node.js and the frameworks running on the client. “JavaScript everywhere” became the mantra for some. Since that discovery, JavaScript has exploded.