- [Instructor] If you've worked with JavaScript before,
you might think of it as just a front end technology,
a way to add interactivity to web applications,
to add features like button clicks and drop downs,
but that's not all JavaScript can do.
With Node.js, you can use your JavaScript skills for more.
Everything from building command line tools
to creating servers to interacting with the file system.
Since Node.js was released in 2009,
companies like PayPal, Netflix, and Microsoft
has used it as a way to build scalable,
event-drive applications.
I'm Alex Banks, I've been teaching Node.js
to engineers for eight years
and I use it almost every day in my own projects.
These days, Node.js is everywhere.
Right now is the best time to become a full stack
JavaScript developer with Node.js.
Let's go.