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Node Is Built on Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript Engine

The V8 engine is the open-source JavaScript engine that runs in the Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi browsers. It was designed with performance in mind and is responsible for compiling JavaScript directly to native machine code that your computer can execute. This means that that the V8 engine is enhanced it with various features, such as a file system API, an HTTP library, and a number of operating system–related utility methods.

NPM is a package manager that comes bundled with Node.

Benefits of Node.js

• Since it is only targeting one runtime (a specific version of the V8 engine), this means that you can write your JavaScript using the latest and most modern syntax. So there are no compatibility issues, unlike when writing for different browsers.