With the advent of Node.js in the web development arena there has been an increasing speculation about its superiority over PHP, the most well-known programming language. Debates and discussions are rife regarding which is better for web development.
Every developer must try to develop at least a simple application in Node. This will enlighten you about the pros and cons, and also the latest updates about Node. PHP has undergone a number of changes since its outset. A number of versions with improvements have been introduced. It is slowly transforming into a language developer actually need. However, this article emphasizes on, being a PHP programmer, why you must give Node a try.
Increasing the Learning Curve:
No matter what stage of life you are at, Learning is an important and indispensable part of it. It helps you expand your horizons. Learning Node you will also get to know its abilities to enhance performance and solidarity both in your front-end and back-end code. This ensures better testing and code verification for elimination of bugs.
There is no doubt that there are loads of open source PHP projects developed. However, it is also true that a number of projects have not been touched for years together.
Node.js is a new code developed by programmers who completely understand the modern web apps. Node.js varies from PHP in the sense that it enables you to present your logical processing to the client. This event-driven system ensures that the client is always kept updated. JavaScript has its own restrictions, but the modern language supports advanced syntax including closures. Whilst extending JavaScript you can transform it into an object configured as per your requirements.
Speed:
You can expect speed when working with Node as it is built on a computationally sound core system built considering modern web servers and their interactions. Node requires less CPU resources and can easily respond to the high number of requests in a short span of time.
There won’t be much difference in processing or event times if you have joined hands with Nginx, Varnish, Memacched and PHP OpCache whilst using PHP. However, the multi-threaded setup of PHP will serve as a major barricade.
This is where Node really becomes a hit. When there are multiple connections, your server highly requires shifting to asynchronous and non-blocking, and, if any part of your code hinders then you will require a thread which involves a huge overhead both in terms of resources and speed.
With so many connections it is nearly impossible to go on creating threads for each connection. On the other hand, Node is non-blocking and asynchronous.
Michael Waugh is a tech blogger & work with Potenza Global Solutions. PGS is leading PHP Development Company that involves a team of expert open source programmers and designers who are trained to deliver web projects with great professionalism.
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