Reading Notes for Day 1 of 401:

Review if helpful: An Introduction to Node.js on sitepoint.com

• How would you describe Node to a non-technical friend? Node is like a series of instructions that tell the program you wrote in JavaScript what to do.

• What does it mean that Node is a JavaScript runtime? It’s like a combination of compiler and environment. It’s the place where the stuff happens.

• What is Node used for? It’s used to make the JavaScript do the stuff.

Things I want to know more about:

I actually don’t entirely understand what makes a runtime what it is, and I haven’t found an explanation that doesn’t read sort of like the definition of ‘firmament’ but I’m continuing to look.