Node.js menene kuma abubuwan da yake da kyau?

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**Node.js** shine runtime da ke ba ka damar aiwatar JavaScript **wajen gida ba** — akan injina, CLIs, da kayan aiki. An gina shi a kan V8 engine na Chrome kuma ya ƙara non-blocking, event-driven I/O model wanda aka ƙera don scalable network applications.

## Ainihin ra'ayi: single-threaded, non-blocking I/O

```js
const fs = require("fs");

// non-blocking: the read happens in the background; the callback fires when done
fs.readFile("big.txt", "utf8", (err, data) => {
  console.log("file read complete");
});
console.log("this prints FIRST — the read didn't block");
```

Node yana aiwatar JS mai ka a jiya thread ɗaya kuma yana ƙaurin I/O (fayil, network, DB) ga tsarin kuma yana ci gaba da aiwatarwa. Lokacin da I/O ya gama, callback yana aiwatarwa. Wannan shi ne dalilin da Node process ɗaya zai iya sarrafa **dubun dubuwan sadarwa na lokaci gida** ba tare da thread ɗaya ko buɗewa ba.

## Abubuwan da Node yake da kyau

```text
✓ APIs & web servers (REST, GraphQL) — I/O-bound, many concurrent requests
✓ Real-time apps (chat, live updates) — WebSockets, event-driven model fits well
✓ Microservices — lightweight, fast startup
✓ CLIs & build tools (the entire npm/Vite/webpack ecosystem)
✓ Streaming (video, large files) via streams
```

## Abubuwan da bai yi ba daidai ba

```text
✗ CPU-heavy work (image processing, big computations) — blocks the single thread
  → offload to worker threads, a queue, or another service
```

Saboda yana da jiya thread ɗaya don JS mai ka, aiki mai nauyi na CPU yana tauye komai — Node yana braye don **I/O-bound** aiki, ba CPU-bound ba.

## Wannen JavaScript a ko'ina ya maɓ ƙarfi

```text
Same language front-end and back-end → shared code/types, one skill set,
huge npm ecosystem (the largest package registry).
```

## Dalilin da yake mabugi

Node.js ja da JavaScript zuwa server kuma ya shahara non-blocking, event-driven model wanda ke sa shi kyau ne sosai don **I/O-heavy, high-concurrency** aikuwa (APIs, real-time, microservices).

Sanin *me* yake sa ta yi ma'ana (async I/O a jiya thread ɗaya) kuma *inda ta damje* (CPU-bound aiki) shine tushen amfani da shi sosai — shi shine kasua na gida na gidajiya JavaScript back-ends kuma aiki.