Nodal.js vs CometD: What are the differences?

Nodal.js: Web servers made easy with Node.js. Nodal is a web server for Node.js that was built with the sole purpose of making the developer's life easier.Boasting its own opinionated, explicit, idiomatic and highly-extensible full-service framework, Nodal takes care of all of the hard decisions for you and your team. This allows you to focus on creating an effective product in a short timespan while minimizing technical debt; CometD: WebSocket & HTTP, highly scalable and clustered web messaging framework. It is a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it. It is an umbrella term, encompassing multiple techniques for achieving this interaction.

Nodal.js and CometD can be primarily classified as "Web Servers" tools.

Some of the features offered by Nodal.js are:

• Models
• Controllers
• Templates: Routing

On the other hand, CometD provides the following key features:

• Javascript Client
• Publish/Subscribe Messaging
• Service Channels

Nodal.js is an open source tool with 4.59K GitHub stars and 256 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Nodal.js's open source repository on GitHub.