Need advice about which tool to choose?Ask the StackShare community!
Nodal.js vs Puma: What are the differences?
Developers describe Nodal.js as "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. On the other hand, Puma is detailed as "A Modern, Concurrent Web Server for Ruby". Unlike other Ruby Webservers, Puma was built for speed and parallelism. Puma is a small library that provides a very fast and concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby web applications.
Nodal.js and Puma can be categorized as "Web Servers" tools.
Nodal.js and Puma are both open source tools. Puma with 5.78K GitHub stars and 987 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Nodal.js with 4.59K GitHub stars and 253 GitHub forks.
Pros of Nodal.js
Pros of Puma
- Free4
- Convenient3
- Easy3
- Multithreaded2
- Consumes less memory than Unicorn2
- Default Rails server2
- First-class support for WebSockets2
- Lightweight1
- Fast1
Sign up to add or upvote prosMake informed product decisions
Cons of Nodal.js
Cons of Puma
- Uses `select` (limited client count)0