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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.
Pros of Nodal.js
Pros of Passenger
- Nginx integration43
- Great for rails36
- Fast web server21
- Free19
- Lightweight15
- Scalable14
- Rolling restarts13
- Multithreading10
- Out-of-process architecture9
- Low-bandwidth6
- Virtually infinitely scalable2
- Deployment error resistance2
- Mass deployment2
- High-latency2
- Many of its good features are only enterprise level1
- Apache integration1
- Secure1
- Asynchronous I/O1
- Multiple programming language support1
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Cons of Nodal.js
Cons of Passenger
- Cost (some features require paid/pro)0