Node.js

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

Packaging modules

On Debian systems Node.js modules are located in:

/usr/lib/nodejs/<module_name>

For more information about packaging a node module for Debian please take a look at these pages:

Complex modules

For complex modules, which have many dependencies to be satisfied, you may want to track you work in this wiki in order to keep javascript team updated about.

For more information, please take a look at Tasks page.