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authorRich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>2018-01-31 09:53:10 -0800
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Shorten text that is duplicated from website and supply link. PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/18483 Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Сковорода Никита Андреевич <chalkerx@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <joyeec9h3@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Daniel Bevenius <daniel.bevenius@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Ruben Bridgewater <ruben@bridgewater.de>
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<a title="CII Best Practices" href="https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/29"><img src="https://bestpractices.coreinfrastructure.org/projects/29/badge"></a>
</p>
-Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js
-uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and
-efficient. The Node.js package ecosystem, [npm][], is the largest ecosystem of
-open source libraries in the world.
+Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. For
+more information on using Node.js, see the
+[Node.js Website][].
The Node.js project is supported by the
[Node.js Foundation](https://nodejs.org/en/foundation/). Contributions,
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* [Contributing to the project][]
* [Working Groups][]
-[npm]: https://www.npmjs.com
[Code of Conduct]: https://github.com/nodejs/admin/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
[Contributing to the project]: CONTRIBUTING.md
[Node.js Help]: https://github.com/nodejs/help