Introduction
Node JS is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 Javascript Engine.
Node JS is an asynchronous event-driven JavaScript runtime, it is used to develop scalable networks and dynamic web applications.
NODE JS consists of a lot of inbuilt and third-party modules which are invoked in the application to be developed. We can also create our modules in NODE JS.
It is an open-source server environment.
It supports various platforms including Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Node.js = Runtime Environment + JavaScript Library
We know that when a user requests something from a server, the server needs to send the response to the client and many programming languages and platforms have different methods of handling the requests and responses in a different manner. Here is how PHP and NODE JS handle the request-response.
Features
Asynchronous and Event-driven Environment:
A NODE JS program or the API runs asynchronously which makes the application boost and it never waits for another program in order to execute the current task.
Dynamic:
Node JS is dynamic and flexible with its wide variety of packages offered with NPM
Speed:
Applications built on NODE JS are very scalable in real-time and are speedy due to NODE JS's non-blocking nature.
To know more about the comparison and useful links visit the below link.
Top comments (0)