...It exposes typical Shadowsocks features such as configurable ciphers, listening ports, and worker process models that let operators tune performance for their deployment. Historically, the Node.js port has been used when convenience or platform compatibility mattered, though some maintainers and users note that performance and memory characteristics differ from other implementations. The codebase includes CLI helpers and configuration parsing so it can be run as a service or embedded in other Node.js tooling.