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Node.js Homepage: a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

Node.js defined on stack overflow: an event-based, non-blocking, asynchronous I/O framework that uses Google’s V8 JavaScript engine and libuv library.

V8 engine: open-source JavaScript engine that runs in the Chrome, Opera and Vivaldi browsers. It was designed with performance in mind and is responsible for compiling JavaScript directly to native machine code that your computer can execute.