Server-Side javascript framework

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Sandman4 picture Sandman4 · Jul 14, 2012 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

I'm looking to replace PHP with something better (everybody seems to say that PHP is evil, right ?), and considering server-side JavaScript.

node.js seems very popular, but I'm afraid I'll go crazy with asynhronous stuff. Is it possible to write normal (synchronous) code under node ?

My whishlist: web and command-line scripting, good performance (on the The Computer Language
Benchmarks Game , V8 seems to be an order of magnitude faster than PHP), preferably developed by some company or community so that it will not be just abandoned someday, user community with a decent modules library.

I don't consider various frameworks based on Rhino, as Rhino runs in Java, and I'm not into Java, aware of it's memory footprint, and the whole idea of compiling javascript to java makes no sense to me.

Spent some time googling, and found numerous projects: Myna, Meteor, GromJS, APE, GLUEscript, v8cgi, silkjs, wakanda, GPSEE, sorrowjs, ejscript, Persevere, PhantomJS.

Does somebody have any experience with those ? Any recommendation are welcome.

Answer

Split Your Infinity picture Split Your Infinity · Jul 14, 2012

Well Node.JS is the way to go if you ask me. You can write synchronous code, BUT only do that in command line scripts. When writing a web servers you have to go the async route otherwise it will not perform because JavaScript is single threaded and everything comes to a halt.

The reason Node.js is so fast is because of asynchronous IO.

You will get used to callbacks and eventing and after a while you don't want to go back.

Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.

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