Node JS Kickstart

I was exploring a few new things in Salesforce, apart from the usual configuration and customization options when I stumbled upon a YouTube video from the Salesforce Developers channel on YouTube - Building our first Node.js web application. While I went through this very interesting video, I was aroused with more questions, than answers.

So, I decided, how about learning some NodeJS from scratch and see for myself how far can I go.

With that, I looked up online for all possible content there could be on Node JS, till I was about to drown in the sea of content. Then, I remembered that one of my friend had suggested about the YouTube videos from Moshfegh Hamedani

That gave me a very good starting point to kickstart my Node JS Journey.

I'll brief my understanding of what I understand about Node JS so far and I'd love to compare this to my own understanding after may be a month.

I'm sure you know how a JS code works. Every browser has a JS Engine that runs our JS Code. So, a JS code could not work without the browser. In Node JS, the JS Engine is embedded in a C++ Program called Node. So, now the same JS Code can work without browser. There's much more to that, but that's the basic understanding of Node JS

Before I dig any deeper, I'll start with doing rather than studying. So, I have my first Hello world NodeJS app ready.

Pre-Requisites

Download Node JS from the official website
To verify download run "node --version" in CMD
Create a new folder "HelloWorld" and add a file "app.js" in it with the following code snippet
```
function sayHello(name) {
 console.log('Hello '+name);
}
sayHello('Neha');
```
In Cmd, run the command "node app.js"

So, with that I have kickstarted my journey to awesomeness. Pretty excited to see where this trail leads me to!!!