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Adrian B.G. • Edited

Hmm I think I got this one too

You like to play with your sand toys (trucks, shovels etc) in your garden, especially after a good rain.

NodeJS is a Sandbox for your living room! You can play with your sand toys inside your clean & beautiful house, without your parents yell at you and making a mess.

Kids: developers
Sand: JavaScript language engine (like V8)
Garden: browsers
Sandbox: NodeJS
Parents: DevOps
Living room: servers

NodeJS is something huge, it changed the world. In order to realize the difference between what it used to be (a language made in 10days as a reply to Flash) vs nowdays see my article about how many things you can build with JavaScript, and most of them exists thanks to V8 and NodeJS.

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