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Guys i'm new in Nodejs,
please can it be used on the web like php?
First you decide what type of situation you have.
If you want to make shopping site, social network etc which use large data processing , then you go for node.js (for example linkedin is made in node.js ).
But if your website does not require much data processing in server side you can go for php.
Nodejs is little difficult to use but once you use it perfectly your website will run smooth.
Both are good languages.
Yes you can easily use nodejs as a server side language.
Nodejs is faster than php. You can use nodejs to speedup your loading speed of your website.
Because nodejs heavily use callbacks.
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What would be the best set of technologies to use if I want to make a desktop application which would fetch data from server through JSON (node.js with MYSQL).
Side note: Currently we are using angular.js for frontend but the client wants a desktop app and is adamant. Don't want to change anything server side.
If you want to go ahead with js itself then you might want to look into electronjs you can even combine it with other frontend techs such as Angular, React or VueJs.
Another option is NW.js.
Look into both and choose as per your requirements both have pros and cons.
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At the risk of this question being closed I will ask anyway.
I have been looking at the different JavaScript Frameworks as most jobs roles seem to want:
angular.js
Knockout.js
Node.js
Whilst i can see Angualr.js and Knockout.js provides a MVC construct to the markup pages (though still not sure which one is best to use) I cannot see what is the case for node.js?
Whilst I appreciate node.js is good for real-time comms but so is Signalr as they both use long-polling.
At present I use signalr to update images on my clients.
is there any purpose to swapping this out for node.js?
Like I said this question could be voted to be closed as it may seem to be asking an opinion - and that would be an answer to me in itself as it would be down to developer choice but is there a DEFINITIVE reason to use node.js over signalr?
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One reason to use node.js is code redundancy. Both the server and client run the same language, thus they may share a certain part of the codebase, meaning potentially less to write. With libraries like Browserify this process can be made a lot more transparent and writing the client-side can be almost indistinguishable from server-side development. Another opportunity this opens up is both client and server side rendering + MVC setups with, for example, rendr.js. So you can have both the fast load speeds of server-side and responsiveness of client-side rendering. If any of this will be useful naturally depends on what you are developing.
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I just began to study web developing and heard that node.js can be easily used to deal with incoming HTTP requests. But I'm wondering why they don't simply use Apache or IIS? Under what circumstance would people prefer handling HTTP requests with their own code written in node.js? Thanks.
Go and have a look into the Raspberry PI community. I know that there this is discussed every once in a while to have a very lightweight server to do stuff. So I believe this is one occasion.
In reality it's though very common to have nginx or apache as a proxy before the node server. The proxy then handles all the heavy lifting like handling static files, while node handles the dynamic stuff.
Node.js compared to PHP is a completely different concept. While a PHP application is stateless, a Node application is stateful, meaning you start the application and it's just running, even when there's no requests, which would not be the case with PHP.
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I have a Node.js script running locally through command line (I haven't developed it so not very familiar with the code) which takes an email address as a parameter and looks up some data and spits out results in a command line table.
I wanted to make a "front-end" for this, like a simple local Webpage where I could punch in an email address and see the response right on the browser itself.
I am not very familiar where to get started without complicating this into a bigger problem than it is. Any guidance would be very helpful here. I haven't really done any web development using Node or JS before but I am familiar with basic web development (and willing to learn) new ways of doing things.
If I can provide any additional information please let me know.
Thank you!
The most prominent framework for developing node apps is express.js. You can't go wrong if you invest some effort into learning express. It will help you with routing and templates, and can generate a skeleton application for you. Read through the guide, and learn:
http://expressjs.com/guide.html
Also you may study the answer to the most popular node question on this site:
How do I get started with Node.js
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I've heard that node.js is really fast for applications like chats and real time apps.
I was wondering if node is a good choice to develop a forum or a q&a site like StackOverflow?
Yes it's perfectly possible, you don't have to implement your own web server like somebody said, you can just create it using something like Express (as a framework) and Mongoose (as a MongoDB ORM) or whatever you choose.
I think Node.js is a good solution for such a case because of its high concurrency (and Stack Overflow is a site where thousands of users are online in the same time probably). So yes you can achieve this with PHP, Ruby and Python etc, but I believe Node.js is a better fit (that's my opinion, based on the success stories I've heard which were based on Node).
Node isn't just a solution for building small services, here are some good examples ( https://nodejs.org/en/blog/uncategorized/an-easy-way-to-build-scalable-network-programs/ ).