**NodeJS is a [[JavaScript]] runtime environment that runs on the machine, not in the browser** NodeJS is not just about making websites (although that's been my primary use) - it allows JavaScript to interact with your machine natively. To run a JavaScript, open the command prompt in same directory as the JavaScript file and simply execute: ```CMD node example.js ``` This allows you to open files, read and write to databases, whatever. You can ALSO push that stuff to work in a server in the cloud, but you don't have to. I forgot that for a while. **** # More ## Source ## Related - [[Electron]] - runs Node