If you are beginner in fields of Software development, this article is for you.

I guess you came here, because you already heard about Node.js, then was looking for good tools.

Eclipse is IDE with over 10 years history, then became platform for a lot of software tools, see Wikipedia.

Learning a bit of Eclipse for developing Node.js will help you even if you don't plan to look at Java.

Eclipse is IDE, that has Editor, Debugger, several Views of the project data, that are integrated as one application. In Eclipse one set of UI layouts is called Perspective.

Node.js is new, relatively simple, 4MB download size.

Whereas JDK (Java Development Kit) is currently 88MB, has a lot of use cases, languages. Some features are new, some are outdated.

[How do I get started with Node.js? (wiki on Stackoverflow)] (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2353818/how-do-i-get-started-with-node-js)