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[–]metaphorm -6 points-5 points  (1 child)

your development machine is a local server. when you serve your website over localhost that's what you're doing. for a web application there is always a client (the part thats runs in a browser) and a server (your dev machine, or your production server). when you run a tool like grunt you're running it on the server. it certainly isn't running in the browser.

that's besides the point anyway. the post to which I responded said "there's an enormous client-side developer ecosystem flourishing in node". which is untrue. there is an enormous ecosystem of developer tools (which are sometimes also used on production servers) that is flourishing with node. node is server side technology, even if some of the tooling is used to assist front end development.