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Pros of Astro
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      Npm
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      Javascript
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      Great libraries
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      High-performance
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      Open source
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      Great for apis
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      Asynchronous
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      Great community
    • 390
      Great for realtime apps
    • 296
      Great for command line utilities
    • 85
      Websockets
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      Node Modules
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      Uber Simple
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      Great modularity
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      Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
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      Easy to start
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      Great for Data Streaming
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      Realtime
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      Awesome
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      Non blocking IO
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      Can be used as a proxy
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      High performance, open source, scalable
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      Non-blocking and modular
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      Easy and Fun
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      Easy and powerful
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      Future of BackEnd
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      Same lang as AngularJS
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      Fullstack
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      Fast
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      Scalability
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      Cross platform
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      Simple
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      Mean Stack
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      Great for webapps
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      Easy concurrency
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      Typescript
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      Fast, simple code and async
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      React
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      Friendly
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      Control everything
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      Its amazingly fast and scalable
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      Easy to use and fast and goes well with JSONdb's
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      Scalable
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      Great speed
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      Fast development
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      It's fast
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      Easy to use
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      Isomorphic coolness
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      Great community
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      Not Python
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      Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
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      TypeScript Support
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      Blazing fast
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      Performant and fast prototyping
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      Easy to learn
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      Easy
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      Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
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      One language, end-to-end
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      Less boilerplate code
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      Npm i ape-updating
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      Event Driven
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      Lovely
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      Creat for apis
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      Node

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    Cons of Astro
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        Bound to a single CPU
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        New framework every day
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        Lots of terrible examples on the internet
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        Asynchronous programming is the worst
      • 24
        Callback
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        Javascript
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        Dependency hell
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        Dependency based on GitHub
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        Low computational power
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        Very very Slow
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        Can block whole server easily
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        Callback functions may not fire on expected sequence
      • 4
        Breaking updates
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        Unstable
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        Unneeded over complication
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        No standard approach
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        Bad transitive dependency management
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        Can't read server session

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      What is Astro?

      It is a new kind of static site builder that delivers lightning-fast performance with a modern developer experience. It combines decades of proven performance best practices with the DX improvements of the component-oriented era. Use your favorite JavaScript framework and automatically ship the bare-minimum amount of JavaScript—by default.

      What is Node.js?

      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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