---
title: "How to Get Started with Node.js – Beginner's Guide to Node"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-get-started-with-node-js-beginner-s-guide-to-node-9wsqjvsxc
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/introduction-to-nodejs/
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
published: 2022-07-13T06:46:38.233Z
updated: 2022-07-13T06:46:38.179Z
tags: ["webdev", "nodejs"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 26
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to Get Started with Node.js – Beginner's Guide to Node

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 9 min read · 26 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

NPM stands for Node Package Manager which help you manage your packages for Node. Node.js is an event-driven, non-blocking IO model. This means it doesn't block itself for one request (but rather immediately moves to the next request) This makes Node extraordinarily fast and efficient.

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