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Node.js is one of the important pillars of front-end engineering. (article warning: only talk about the front end, not the whole stack)

A JavaScript history drawn the other day:

I started writing simple front-end pages in 2003 and experienced the torment of IE6. Witnessed the release of Firefox in 2004, the first version of jQuery in 2006, and Chrome in 2008.

Although Node.js was released in 2009, I didn't start using Node.js until around 2011, when I was trying to learn Angular.

Node.js gives many beginners the first impression that "you can run JavaScript on the server", so many people have this question: "I write front-end code, not the back-end, why am I learning Node.js?"

Today's front end is no longer the front end of a few years ago. In the past, we wrote Web Page, and the pages we wrote were for people to see; now we write Web App, and the applications we write are for others to use. The complexity of the two can not be compared with each other.

Even in the Web Page era, it is not easy to develop a website. We need to compress (merge) JavaScript/CSS code, make sprite images, compress pictures and other resources, and replace links to HTML resources in batches. Wait. I have seen many beginners use this way to compress JavaScript code, open Baidu, search for "online compression JavaScript", then copy the code in, after compression, copy and paste into a new file, and use FTP to deploy the compressed file to the server. This is done not only by beginners, but also by front-end developers with years of experience.

Furthermore, developers usually develop scripts to do these things, using Python, Shell, and so on.

Before I used Node.js, I used Java's most popular Ant for front-end engineering. Probably because JavaScript and Java are similar, in the SPA era, many articles in the JavaScript community introduce Ant, and many tools of JavaScript are also developed using Java, such as yuicompressor for js code compression, which was originally developed by Yahoo to do code compression for yui, but now yui is also cool.

Node.js brings Grunt (2012), Gulp (2012), Webpack (2012) to the front-end community.

Therefore, Node.js is one of the important pillars of front-end engineering.

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