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Looks promising. But didn't see anywhere in the docs how does this work. * What's the underlying server? * Does it transpile to Node.js? * How does the third party module system work? * Which are other readymade libraries that can be used with this?

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It runs directly on the Dart VM, which has its own HTTP server implementation. That's the interesting thing about the Dart VM - it's a C++ executable with no ties to JS. Third party modules may be provided by through Dart's package manager, https://pub.dartlang.org.

It's command-line tool runs the application, but there isn't much from stopping you from just using the `dart` command line tool and a Dart script to start it.

edit: Basically, you can run this on any machine that can install Dart.

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