Microsoft wants you to build for the cloud and has developed a free Node.js course to help learners on their journey.

Then Node.js was spawned, turning developers’ heads with its speed. Not only was JavaScript faster on the server than anyone had expected, but it was often faster than Java and other options.

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One language was all it took to build Node.js and the frameworks running on the client. “JavaScript everywhere” became the mantra for some. Since that discovery, JavaScript has exploded.