What is Node.js? JavaScript on the Server Explained

Hello readers 👋, welcome to the 2nd blog in this NodeJS series! In our last post, we did something exciting: we installed Node.js, wrote our first script, and even spun up a tiny Hello World server. It was hands-on and practical. Today, we are going to take a step back and answer a fundamental question: what exactly is Node.js, and how does it let JavaScript run outside the browser? We will talk about why JavaScript was stuck in the browser for years, how Node.js broke down those walls, and why