Quote (Eep @ Jul 28 2013 03:36pm)
its a platform built on JS. Is it done purely with JS? (referring to the platform itself.....was it built ONLY using js?) Like if I didn't have node.js, could I just start writing some js and make a server and client?
it's a port of google's javascript engine v8 to standalone mode with extra hooks for the low level things, such as filesystem access, network sockets etc
also parts of node.js distribution are indeed written in javascript itself, to wrap around the ugly low level stuff; also packages for it are in js, can be easily installed with npm
https://npmjs.org/