Project Details

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time environment that executes JavaScript code outside the browser.

Node.js brings event-driven programming to web servers, enabling development of fast web servers in JavaScript. Developers can create highly scalable servers without using threading, by using a simplified model of event-driven programming that uses callbacks to signal the completion of a task. Node.js connects the ease of a scripting language (JavaScript) with the power of Unix network programming.

In easier to understand words: Node-js is a free platform whose goal is to provide its users the possibility to create lightweight and cost efficient web servers, how does Node.js do this?

Node.js handles web server connections in a way so they don´t take up as much space in a server, and thus, the owner of a project would not need to invest as much money in multiple servers to store so much information in Gigabytes.

Being an Open Source Project, Node.js possesses immense value for providing so much while at the same time being totally free.

Contribution Specifications

762,917 words have been translated so far in the Spanish translation folder of Node.js, which amounts to a total of 72% done in regards to the completion of the translation of this big project.

Translation Overview

In this contribution, I finished translating Globals.md and started translating the second async_hooks.md folder.

Globals.md:

This folder describes Node.js objects that appear in all modules, making them global.

async_hooks.md:

This folder provides information about asynchronous elements and operations.

The async_hooks module provides an API to register callbacks tracking the lifetime of asynchronous resources created inside a Node.js application.

This time, the concepts that showed the most relevance were Binary Data and Hook.

These are some examples of strings that show these words:

1 . BINARY DATA

2 . HOOK

Those are the new words I found on Globals.md and async_hooks.md.

These are the meanings of the concepts I learned about while working on this contribution:

Hook:

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In computer programming, a hook is a place and usually an interface provided in packaged code that allows a programmer to insert customized programming.

For example, a programmer might want to provide code that analyzed how often a particular logic path was taken within a program.

Typically, hooks are provided for a stated purpose and are documented for the programmer.

"Hooking" covers a range of techniques used to alter or augment the behaviour of an operating system, of applications, or of other software components by intercepting function calls or messages or events passed between software components.

Code that handles such intercepted function calls, events or messages is called a hook.

Reference for this concept

Binary Data:

Binary data is a type of data that is represented or displayed in the binary numeral system. Binary data is the only category of data that can be directly understood and executed by a computer. It is numerically represented by a combination of zeros and ones.

Binary data is considered the native data/language of a computer and it interacts with the lowest abstraction layer of its hardware. This type of data is produced whenever a process is performed on a computer. The application requesting the process sends instructions in a high-level language that is ultimately converted into binary data to be executed or sent to the processor. All processes, regardless of their type, are converted into binary form before execution.

Large files may contain several thousand bytes (or several megabytes) of binary data. A large application may take up thousands of megabytes of data. No matter how big a file or program is, at its most basic level, it is simply a collection of binary digits that can be read by a computer processor.

Reference for this concept:

Binary Data containing only ones and zeros:

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Total of words translated on Globals.md

Here's the link to the Globals.md folder.

Total of words translated so far on async_hooks.md

Here's the link to the async_hooks.md folder.

Languages

The project's source language is English and it is being translated into Spanish.

Also, Node.js is currently being translated into other 32 languages. I´m contributing to making this project accessible to the Spanish speaking community online.

Besides collaborating as a translator for Open Source Projects on Crowdin I also work as a Freelance Translator for a law firm in the US, I've been working for that company for one year and six months, translating sworn statements and legal documents from English to Spanish and viceversa.

Open Source Projects I've worked on and contributed to as a translator:

1 . Verdaccio

2 . OroCRM

3 . BiglyBT

4 . The Curious Expedition

5 . Node.js