== Intro ==
[http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/07/what-is-node.html What is node?]<ref>Radar O'Reilly article from 2011 that is a good overview.</ref> [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUCHr2H-7_g video with Tom Hughes-Croucher of Joyent] Node.js is a platform for doing network applications using [[JavaScript]] on the client and server. Basically, it's like an Apache web server, written in C, and using the Chrome browser's JavaScript engine. The community is well-developed and there are many pre-written 'modules'. See the [[wp:Node.js|wikipedia article]] for more.
== Parsoid Web Service API ==
https://freephile.org/node is a node.js implementation that powers the [[Visual editor]] for MediaWiki
* {{@todo}} reconstitute the node service
** {{done}} installed nodejs package (note that the package provides npm, so it conflicts with the npm standalone package) '''<code>dpkg-query --info nodejs</code>'''
** {{AI}} configure port
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