Grokking NodeJS: The V8 Engine, Run-time Environments and NPM

You have to be able to imagine where everything is, and why they're there.

Note: I’m now taking the Google technical documentation course, so I can better structure my writing here to be as clear as possible, while cutting down on flowery expression. This will mark a departure from too much creativity — and I mourn that — in favor of the best signal to noise ratio I can possibly muster — and I for one am excited for that.

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