--- title: What is Node.js? | daily.dev description: Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 engine. It was originally created by Ryan Dahl, an American Software Engineer. It is... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-node-js--52v9u-n-q twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What is Node.js? | daily.dev og:description: Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 engine. It was originally created by Ryan Dahl, an American Software Engineer. It is... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-is-node-js--52v9u-n-q og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/52v9u_n-Q.png og:image:alt: What is Node.js? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What is Node.js? **[JavaScript in Plain English](https://daily.dev/sources/jsPlainEnglish)** · [@rahil1304](https://daily.dev/rahil1304) · 9 min read · 14 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary Node.js is a JavaScript runtime environment built on Chrome’s V8 engine. It was originally created by Ryan Dahl, an American Software Engineer. It is cross-platform and can be run on Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, etc. It allows to perform non-blocking I/O operations despite the fact that JavaScript is single-threaded. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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