With the advancement of technology, many new start-ups are trying to invade in the IT industry. Node.js is also one of them who makes its position in the top ranks.
Node.js is a run-time environment of JavaScript that runs the server-side JavaScript codes. In short, we can say that Node.js extends the range of JavaScript applications from client-side to server-side. The main focus of Node.js is to design real-time applications with the help of its asynchronous behavior and event-driven approach.
The following are some unbeatable features of Node.js that make it distinct from other programming languages.
Node.js is best suited to create the following types of applications
It is one of the key problems of Node.js is that its API is not stable. Most of the developers find that in every interval of time API keeps on changing. From time to time, a new API shown which have a lot of backward-incompatible changes. Therefore, developers have to make changes in the accessible code bases so that they can match the compatibility with the latest version.
Another drawback of the asynchronous programming is that the codes tend to become clumsy It is necessary to adopt the asynchronous programming model to make the application more scalable. But many developers find it very difficult in comparison with the linear blocking I/O programming.
As Node.js is an event-based and a single-threaded environment, it is not efficient to handle CPU- intensive apps. Some of the requests that Node.js is not capable of handling are generating audio, video, or editing graphics.
Node.js | PHP |
Node.js is a JavaScript framework. | PHP is a server-side scripting language. |
Node.js is powered by the Google V8 JavaScript engine. | PHP is powered by the Zend engine. |
It is the server-side runtime environment of JavaScript. | PHP has a ready to install feature to use it on the server-side |
Node.js is asynchronous PHP is synchronous. Node.js is not much complex to use but more than PHP due to more lines of coding. | PHP is much simpler to use in contrast with NodeJS |
Node.js is fast and lightweight in comparison to PHP | PHP is slower than Node.js |
It has a Node Package Manager to use. | It mainly uses the Composer Package manager. |
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Sharad Jaiswal
My name is Sharad Jaiswal, and I am the founder of Conax web Solutions. My tech stacks are PHP, NodeJS, Angular, React. I love to write technical articles and programming blogs.