Node.JS Server on Ubuntu 24.04 with support

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Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. As an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, Node.js is designed to build scalable network applications on AWS. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed AWS infrastructure.

Node.js is an open source, cross-platform runtime environment for developing server-side and networking applications. Node.js applications are written in JavaScript, and can be run within the Node.js runtime on AWS EC2 instances running Linux.

Over 1.5 million open source packages on NPM. The Node community has many open source projects available to help you save time. These libraries range from simple helpers and charts to full blown frameworks. The idea of NPM modules is quite similar to that of Ruby Gems: a set of publicly available, reusable components, available through easy installation via an online repository, with version and dependency management.

• Asynchronous and Event Driven: All APIs of Node.js library are asynchronous, that is, non-blocking. It essentially means a Node.js based server never waits for an API to return data. The server moves to the next API after calling it and a notification mechanism of Events of Node.js helps the server to get a response from the previous API call. Perfect for AWS microservices architecture.

• Very Fast: Being built on Google Chrome's V8 JavaScript Engine, Node.js library is very fast in code execution, making it ideal for high-performance AWS applications.

• Single Threaded but Highly Scalable: Node.js uses a single threaded model with event looping. Event mechanism helps the server to respond in a non-blocking way and makes the server highly scalable as opposed to traditional servers which create limited threads to handle requests. Node.js uses a single threaded program and the same program can provide service to a much larger number of requests than traditional servers like Apache HTTP Server. This efficiency translates to better AWS cost optimization.

• No Buffering: Node.js applications never buffer any data, streaming data in chunks which is perfect for AWS Lambda and serverless architectures.

• AWS Integration: Native support for AWS SDK, enabling seamless integration with AWS services like DynamoDB, S3, Lambda, and API Gateway.

• Container Ready: Excellent Docker support for deployment on AWS ECS, EKS, and Fargate.

• Serverless Compatible: Perfect for AWS Lambda functions with fast cold start times.

• Auto Scaling: Works seamlessly with AWS Auto Scaling groups and Application Load Balancers.

Node.js on AWS provides exceptional performance and scalability for modern web applications, APIs, and microservices. The combination of Node.js efficiency and AWS infrastructure enables cost-effective, highly available applications that can scale automatically based on demand.

Disclaimer: Node.js® is a registered trademark of Joyent, Inc. and is licensed under MIT License. No warranty of any kind, express or implied, is included with this software. Use at your risk, responsibility for damages (if any) to anyone resulting from the use of this software rest entirely with the user. The author is not responsible for any damage that its use could cause.