Intro from official website:
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.
Official Website:http://nodejs.org/
you can go to Nodeschool to go through the basic and knowledge about nodejs:http://nodeschool.io/