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Nodal.js vs Passenger: What are the differences?

What is 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.

What is Passenger? A fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex.

Nodal.js and Passenger can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.

Nodal.js and Passenger are both open source tools. Nodal.js with 4.59K GitHub stars and 253 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Passenger with 4.41K GitHub stars and 505 GitHub forks.

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Pros of Nodal.js
Pros of Passenger
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    • 43
      Nginx integration
    • 36
      Great for rails
    • 21
      Fast web server
    • 19
      Free
    • 15
      Lightweight
    • 14
      Scalable
    • 13
      Rolling restarts
    • 10
      Multithreading
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      Out-of-process architecture
    • 6
      Low-bandwidth
    • 2
      Virtually infinitely scalable
    • 2
      Deployment error resistance
    • 2
      Mass deployment
    • 2
      High-latency
    • 1
      Many of its good features are only enterprise level
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      Apache integration
    • 1
      Secure
    • 1
      Asynchronous I/O
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      Multiple programming language support

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    Cons of Nodal.js
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        Cost (some features require paid/pro)

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      What is Nodal.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.

      What is Passenger?

      Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex.

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      What are some alternatives to Nodal.js and Passenger?
      NGINX
      nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
      Apache HTTP Server
      The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
      Amazon EC2
      It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
      Firebase
      Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
      Amazon Web Services (AWS)
      It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
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