Download Docs Blog Community Modules Resources Jobs About Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. Current Version: v0.10.28 INSTALL Downloads API Docs This simple web server written in Node responds with "Hello World" for every request. var http = require('http'); http.createServer(function (req, res) { res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); res.end('Hello World\n'); }).listen(1337, '127.0.0.1'); console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337/'); To run the server, put the code into a file example.js and execute it with the node program from the command line: % ...