Should a beginner to web development start out with Node.Js?
9th September 2013
My answer to Should a beginner to web development start out with Node.Js? on Quora
Maybe. One of the things I like about Node.js is that the raw abstraction it provides over HTTP is much closer to how the actual protocol works than the abstractions provided many of the more widely used frameworks such as PHP, Django or Rails. That might actually make it an effective learning tool—I’d be interested in hearing from some web developers who learnt Node.js as their first server-side technology.
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