### Repository

Github: https://github.com/nodejs/i18n

Crowdin link: https://crowdin.com/project/nodejs

Simplified Chinese page: https://crowdin.com/project/nodejs/zh-CN#

### Project Details

> Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.

Node.js is a free, cross-platform, open source server environment to execute JavaScript outside of a browser. Traditionally, JavaScript is used for client side scripting and runs by a JavaScript engine embedded within a browser. With Node.js, JavaScript can be used to write command line programs or server side scripting. By this way, developers only need to learn a single programming language to do both server side and client side programming. 

Node.js is built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript execution engine which was initially built for Google Chrome. Instead of interpreting JavaScript in real time, V8 compiles JavaScript code to native binary machine code to improve the performance. Node.js has an event driven architecture which makes it suitable for web applications with many I/O operations. That is why Node.js is very fast compared to similar technologies. libuv is used to handle asynchronous events across operating systems. 

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### Contribution Specifications

I have used Node.js in a few small projects but never got a chance to see a whole picture of this amazing and popular framework. I am very exciting to start translating Node.js and very looking forward to my new learning journey!

**Translation overview**

The whole project consists of 1,048,272 words. victory622 has started working on this project. Since this project is extremely large therefore collaborations are required. I will be concentrating on the translation of v8.x folder which has 353,483 words to translate. 

**This submission**

In this submission, I have finished ‘process’ module and started working on ‘path.md’. The rest of ‘process’ module is quite straightforward to translate. But for ‘path.md’ module, I have spent some extra time to find out the most appropriate translation for some terms, for example:

1) ‘path delimiter’ could be translated to ‘路径定界符‘ or ‘路径分隔符‘, I have finally found out that ‘路径分隔符‘ is the most popular one being used by Chinese developers.
 
2) For ‘on POSIX’, I feel that both ‘在 POSIX系统上’ and ‘ 在 POSIX系统下’ are appropriate within the context but I decided to use ‘在 POSIX系统上’ because it was translated and approved by other translator / proofreader and it would be better to keep the terms translated consistently.

**Languages**

I translate Node.js from English to Simplified Chinese. 

**Word Count**

Regarding the number of words, this is my 42nd contribution to Node.js project and I have translated 1111 words in process and path module.

**Before**:  

5671 word in “process.md”
0 word in “path.md”

**After**:  

6205 words in “process.md”
557 words in “path.md”

**Total**:  6205-5671+577 = 1111 words

### Proof of Authorship

My translation activities can be viewed in my Crowdin profile: https://crowdin.com/profile/aafeng/activity