Category: 3. History

Node.js was initially written by Ryan Dahl in 2009, about 13 years after the introduction of the first server-side JavaScript environment, Netscape’s LiveWire Pro Web. The initial release supported only Linux and Mac OS X. Its development and maintenance was led by Dahl and later sponsored by Joyent. Dahl criticized the limited capability of Apache HTTP Server to handle many (10,000+) concurrent connections, as…