Node.js vs Slim | What are the differences?

Node.js

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Followers72.7K

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Votes8.3K

Slim

Stacks231

Followers290

+ 1

Votes135

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Pros of Node.js

Pros of Slim

1.4K
Npm
1.3K
Javascript
1.1K
Great libraries
1K
High-performance
788
Open source
476
Great for apis
467
Asynchronous
414
Great community
385
Great for realtime apps
290
Great for command line utilities
77
Node Modules
75
Websockets
64
Uber Simple
53
Allows us to reuse code in the frontend
53
Great modularity
38
Easy to start
33
Great for Data Streaming
29
Realtime
25
Awesome
23
Non blocking IO
16
Can be used as a proxy
15
High performance, open source, scalable
14
Non-blocking and modular
13
Easy and Fun
12
Same lang as AngularJS
11
Easy and powerful
10
Future of BackEnd
9
Fast
8
Scalability
8
Cross platform
6
Fullstack
6
Simple
6
Mean Stack
5
Easy concurrency
5
Great for webapps
4
Friendly
4
Easy to use and fast and goes well with JSONdb's
4
Typescript
4
React
4
Fast, simple code and async
3
Isomorphic coolness
3
Great speed
3
Fast development
3
Control everything
3
Scalable
3
Its amazingly fast and scalable
2
Less boilerplate code
2
Great community
2
Blazing fast
2
It's fast
2
Sooper easy for the Backend connectivity
2
One language, end-to-end
2
Scales, fast, simple, great community, npm, express
2
TypeScript Support
2
Easy to learn
2
Easy to use
2
Performant and fast prototyping
1
Lovely
1
Not Python
0
Javascript2
0
Event Driven

30
Microframework
25
API
21
Open source
19
Php
11
Fast
8
Restful & fast framework
7
Easy Setup, Great Documentation
5
Clear and straightforward
5
Good document to upgrade from previous version
4
Modular

Cons of Node.js

Cons of Slim

45
Bound to a single CPU
37
New framework every day
32
Lots of terrible examples on the internet
27
Asynchronous programming is the worst
22
Callback
16
Javascript
11
Dependency based on GitHub
10
Dependency hell
10
Low computational power
7
Can block whole server easily
6
Callback functions may not fire on expected sequence
6
Very very Slow
3
Unneeded over complication
3
Breaking updates
3
Unstable
1
No standard approach

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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.

What is Slim?

Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.

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