When the Holepunch team set out to build Pear—a decentralized, peer-to-peer application runtime—they started with the obvious choice: Node. js. Node is the undisputed king of JavaScript outside the browser.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/aniket_misra_e47d1564ab7b/kill-the-server-why-holepunch-threw-away-nodejs-and-built-bare-3gdi)