Node.js v ruby vs django
NodeJS vs Ruby on Rails v Django:
NodeJS vs Ruby on Rails v Django comparison 2017. Which is the best for web development?
It’s hard for a startup to choose the right language for development. One of the biggest fight in development is between Node.JS and Ruby on Rails. So, who is the winner in this fight?
The King is dead, long live The King!
If you asked this question 5 years ago, it would be definitely Ruby, but time is changing and we have a new leader.
Let’s have a look at Google trends:
During the last 4 years, Node.JS has just smashed Ruby, and node continues to expand the market.
Now, let’s compare programming languages runtime.
As we can see from this graph, Ruby has the slowest runtime.
Another factor is a quantity of jobs. The more jobs in the market the more demands on a particular language.
Ruby on Rails Pros:
It is flexible and IDE friendly framework.
Database migrations. It will be easily portable to any platform.
Easy functions and manipulations.
It is consistent with structure and methodology.
The language is very powerful and expressive. It’s easy to express application logic in an intuitive way.
Ruby on Rails Cons:
Best programming skills are required so top notch programmers with high pay are required.
Much trickier if making large projects.
Documentation is only for popular frameworks
More computing resources are required.
Performance. Rails is slow as hell, and this bubbles up to the experience of the end user.
Large stack frames. The fact that Rails has so many layers of abstraction makes debugging a pain.
RUBY BASED WEBSITES:
NODEJS WEBSITES:
Node.JS Pros:
Powerful underlying libraries. libuv, the library behind Node that handles non-blocking I/O, is super awesome and wicked fast.
Full stack. From HTTP server to templating engine, Node.JS is the whole package. Rails relies on something like Nginx or Apache with mod_rails (aka Passenger) in order to actually work.
High market demand and very popular in startups at this time.
Same language on client and server side.
Easy to monitor, deploy and support.
Page load is faster across the site. (Our tests showed that websites are usually 2 or 3 times faster with node.
Node.JS Cons:
Node is not suitable for processor intensive tasks.
Unstable API: The Node API has a habit of changing in backwards-incompatible ways from release to release, and frequent changes to your codebase are required to keep things running on the latest version. That said, things are supposed to be more stable since 0.2.0 has been released.
Because it’s new and very hot, there are fewer developers in market for node.js.
Big companies are choosing Node.JS instead of Ruby on Rails.
When it comes to scalability you can’t compete with Node.JS. There are companies, that switched from Ruby on Rails to Node.js:
Netflix
New York Times
PayPal
Medium
Uber
Hapi
LinkedIn Case Study
LinkedIn replaced their back-end mobile infrastructure built on Ruby on Rails with Node.js some time ago for performance and scalability reasons.
Kiran Prasad decided to switch from Ruby because of scalability problems.
Node.js was eventually chosen providing a number of benefits:
Better performance, Node.js is being up to 20 times faster than Rails for certain scenarios
Using only 3 servers instead of 30, leaving room for a 10x traffic growth
Front-end JavaScript engineers could be used for back-end code, and the two teams were actually merged into one
The list of more than 4000 companies that are already use Node.js. There is a long thread of reactions on Hacker News
Django:
Django is supposedly a very powerful framework too and it owes it to the Python language actually. I have heard only good things about it.
website using Django
Disqus
Instagram:
Django pros:
Although so much has been said about Python and its advantages, let us now focus on theadvantages of Django, which not only acts as a quick solution for web development, its ability to deliver high-quality code and transparent writing provides the right platform to customersfor business and even for the developers.
Fast: This has been designed in a way to help the developers make an application as fast as possible. From idea, production to release, Django helps in making it both cost effective and efficient. Thus it becomes an ideal solution for developers having a primary focus on deadlines.
Fully Loaded: It works in a way that includes dozens of extras to help with user authentication, site maps, content administration, RSS feeds and much more such things. These aspects help in carrying out the web development process completely.
Secure: When you are doing it in Django, it is ensured that developers don’t commit any mistakes related to security. Some of the common mistakes include SQL injection, cross-site request forgery, clickjacking and cross-site scripting. To manage effectively usernames and passwords, the user authentication system is the key.
Scalable: To meet the heaviest traffic demand, the benefits of Django framework can be seen. Therefore, the busiest sites use this medium to quickly meet the traffic demands.
Versatile: Content management, scientific computing platforms, and even big organizations, all these aspects are very efficiently managed by the use of Django
DISADVANTGES:
Along with the advantages, come the disadvantages. There are many disadvantages of Django mentioned below.
Uses routing pattern specify its URL
Django is too monolithic
Everything is based on Django ORM
Components get deployed together
Knowledge of full system is required to work.
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