Know Javascript..use node.js server-side

node.js Introduction 

node.js firstly is a (unexpectedly) spawned server side execution of Google's V8 Javascript engine. The V8 engine is said to be also used by chrome Browser.

node.js may be compared to something like vbruntime enabling vbscript.

So this enables Javascript to be used on server-side.  

All browsers have a javascript engine which nobody seems to have thought of making into a server-side engine which will allow javascript enthusiasts code on the server-side. Now node.js is popular, and Microsoft even supports node.js scripting on their Azure cloud systems (could help tap Javascript coders to use Azure). 

 Extracted from - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/339740/Know-Javascript-use-node-js-server-side